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* ''PotterPuppetPals'': "Have you ever had a bad day? Do you know what they'd call you if every day of your life was like that? They'd call you Snape..."
** Except Harry's more the villain in PotterPuppetPals - Snape's more the ButtMonkey.

* ''Theatre/TwistedTheUntoldStoryOfARoyalVizier'' has one in homage to "No Good Deed" from ''Theatre/Wicked''. [[spoiler:It's a subversion, as it reveals all the villains singing were good people who were demonized by the supposed "heroes". Jafar even gives a subverted ThenLetMeBeEvil rant near the end, with the subversion being that he's going to do the right thing even if it means he'll go down in history as the villain.]]

->''I'm so [[JapaneseRanguage ronery]], so [[MemeticMutation ronery]]\\
[[LonelyAtTheTop So ronery and sadry arone.\\

Sitting on my rittle throne]].\\

[[NarmCharm And so, I'm ronery *sniffles* A rittle ronery.\\
Poor rittle me...]]''

* "Die Unstillbare Gier" from ''TanzDerVampire'', in which both the audience and Alfred realize that Count von Krolock is a ''person'', capable of great longing and regret.

* [[DoctorSteel Doctor Steel]]'s "Lament for a Toy Factory", although it also doubles as his MotiveRant.
* Twisted Sister's "Burn In Hell": "You can't believe all the things I've done wrong in my life / Without even trying, I've lived on the edge of a knife…."

* {{Edge}}'s theme, "Metalingus", was a really twisted inversion, or maybe just a subversion. It's a song about a Christian triumphing over personal shortcomings through faith in God....but Edge started using it ''after'' he became so obsessed with winning the WWE Championship that [[FaceHeelTurn the desire turned him into a villain]]. So he basically saw championship gold as his "salvation" - even if he had to betray [[ChrisBenoit his tag-team partner]] and screw and corrupt his rival's girlfriend along the way.

* "Marley and Marley" from ''Film/TheMuppetChristmasCarol'', wherein [[StatlerAndWaldorf Jacob (and Robert) Marley]] narrate how it took suffering in the afterlife to realize their misdeeds while living.

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* The 128th chapter of ''Fanfic/HopeForTheHeartless'' provides an example where the resident VillainProtagonist doesn't sing, but lyrics from a song have been added to the narration in order to give depth to introspective musings. During one rainy night, the [[ResurrectedForAJob resurrected]] BigBad of ''Disney/TheBlackCauldron'', the Horned King, reflects on how he has [[TheDarhSideWillMakeYouForget cast aside memories]] from an existence of a millennium during his single-minded quest to [[TakeOverTheWorld conquer the world]] and doesn't remember [[WasOnceAMan who he used to be]] before becoming {{the dreaded}} warlord lich he's now known as. He also laments on how [[TheSleepless he is unable to dream]] or stand in the rain without being [[WeaksauceWeakness hurt by it]] like his MoralityPet [[PurityPersonified Avalina]] and how [[BeingEvilSucks he couldn't possibly regain all that]] despite having already [[spoiler:regained a living heart]]. The lyrics added to the narration are from "Nemo" of Music/{{Nightwish}} with slight alterations.

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* The 128th chapter of ''Fanfic/HopeForTheHeartless'' provides an example where the VillainProtagonist doesn't sing, but lyrics from a song have been added to the narration in order to give depth to introspective musing. The [[ResurrectedForAJob resurrected]] BigBad of ''Disney/TheBlackCauldron'', the Horned King, reflects on how he has [[TheDarhSideWillMakeYouForget cast aside memories]] from his existence of a millennium in his single-minded quest to [[TakeOverTheWorld conquer the world]] and doesn't now remember [[WasOnceAMan who he used to be]] or what it feels like to stand in the rain without being [[WeaksauceWeakness hurt by it]].

* Diamond Tiara from ''WesternAnimation/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagic'' has "The Pony I want To Be". It is Diamond lamenting about how she wishes she could become different but how she has no idea how to change into a nicer pony.

It's been said that the [[VillainSong villain tends to have the best songs]] in any given musical, full of flash and gloating. But sometimes, the villain (or perhaps a VillainProtagonist, AntiVillain, or character who made a HeelFaceTurn) has a moment onstage in which they list all of their misdeeds or mistakes... and the audience realizes that the character really, really hates themselves for what they've done, and the song has clearly strayed from fully villainous territory.

* The final song in ''DrHorriblesSingAlongBlog'' seems to go back and forth between this and a straight VillainSong. To an extent, the whole show is this trope.

* Music/{{Mothy}}'s [[Franchise/EvilliousChronicles Regret Message]].

* "The Bum Won" from ''Fiorello!'', in which a group of Tammany hacks read the headlines and weep.

* Music/{{Mothy}}'s Regret Message. [

* "Best at Being the Worst" from TeamRocket in the ''Pokemon Live!'' musical.

* "Rudolf, wo bist du?" from ''{{Elisabeth}}''.

* "Behind Blue Eyes" by TheWho was originally intended as a villain's lament within Townshend's aborted RockOpera ''Lifehouse''.

Poor rittle me...]]''\\

* Twisted Sister's "Burn In Hell": "You can't believe all the things I've done wrong in my life / Without even trying, I've lived on the edge of a knife...."

->''But my dreams, they aren't as empty\\
As my conscience seems to be\\
I have hours, only lonely\\
My love is vengeance\\
That's never free''
-->-- "Behind Blue Eyes", by Music/TheWho

* "The Madness of King Scar" from the stage version of ''Disney/TheLionKing''.

* [[spoiler:"Javert's Suicide"]] from ''Theatre/LesMiserables''.

* "The Madness of King Scar" from the stage version of ''TheLionKing''.