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** [[MegaCorp Anaheim Electronics]] had done this for quite a bit, from [[Anime/MobileSuitZetaGundam selling weapons to all sides]], [[Anime/MobileSuitGundam0083StardustMemory building a Mobile Suit with nuclear strike capability just because they can]], to [[Anime/MobileSuitGundamUnicorn concealing documents that could have prevented the One Year War so they could make more weapons]]. AE was able to get away with it for a long time because the winners of each war were so reliant on AE-provided weaponry that they failed to notice how most of the wars never would've even happened if not for AE's manipulations. And that's just the '''First''' Universal Century; in the ''[[Anime/MobileSuitGundamF91 F91]]'' era, after losing favor to the Federation's in-house think tank SNRI, Anaheim responds by outright stealing SNRI's tech (''Silhouette Formula 91'') and helping Zeon remnants try to invade Earth (''Gundam F90: Formula Wars 0122'' UsefulNotes/SuperFamicom game).
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** [[MegaCorp Anaheim Electronics]] had done this for quite a bit, from [[Anime/MobileSuitZetaGundam selling weapons to all sides]], [[Anime/MobileSuitGundam0083StardustMemory building a Mobile Suit with nuclear strike capability just because they can]], to [[Anime/MobileSuitGundamUnicorn concealing documents that could have prevented the One Year War so they could make more weapons]]. AE was able to get away with it for a long time because the winners of each war were so reliant on AE-provided weaponry that they failed to notice how most of the wars never would've even happened if not for AE's manipulations. And that's just the '''First''' Universal Century; in the ''[[Anime/MobileSuitGundamF91 F91]]'' era, after losing favor to the Federation's in-house think tank SNRI, Anaheim responds by outright stealing SNRI's tech (''Silhouette Formula 91'') and helping Zeon remnants try to invade Earth (''Gundam F90: Formula Wars 0122'' UsefulNotes/SuperFamicom Platform/SuperFamicom game).
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** Nobliss Gordon of ''Anime/MobileSuitGundamIronBloodedOrphans'' does this with Gjallarhorn and other parties in a vicious cycle of greed. First find the agitated masses looking for Independence and economic rights, then get someone to band around their cause and arm the people involved and hire Teiwaz to run the weapon shipments to the activists involved and watch as it all crumbles apart after the rebels fail at the hands of Gjallarhorn. This song and dance goes on until Ride kills Nobliss in response for killing Orga.
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** Nobliss Gordon of ''Anime/MobileSuitGundamIronBloodedOrphans'' does this with Gjallarhorn and other parties in a vicious cycle of greed. First find the agitated masses looking for Independence and economic rights, then get someone to band around their cause and arm the people involved and hire Teiwaz to run the weapon shipments to the activists involved and watch as it all crumbles apart after the rebels fail at the hands of Gjallarhorn. This song and dance goes on until [[spoiler:until Ride kills Nobliss in response for killing Orga.Orga]].
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** Benerit Group in ''Anime/MobileSuitGundamTheWitchFromMercury'' keeps the situation on Earth unstable so that they can profit off of it by creating the Mobile Suits used for the wars. [[spoiler:In the GrandFinale, Miorine, as president of the group, ''completely dissolves it'' and gives the resulting monetary assets to the governments to help rebuild]].
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** Benerit Group in While always a part of the franchise, ''Anime/MobileSuitGundamTheWitchFromMercury'' keeps makes this its core focus with the Benerit Group, a conglomerate of mobile suit manufacturers who use their vast wealth to keep the situation on Earth unstable so that with an unending series of proxy-wars, which they can then profit off of it by creating with the Mobile Suits sale of their mobile suits used for in the wars. conflicts. [[spoiler:In the GrandFinale, Miorine, as president of the group, ''completely dissolves it'' and gives sells the resulting collective monetary assets to the governments Earth-based interests to help rebuild]].rebuild and gain independence from Space-based exploitation]].
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** Benerit Group in ''Anime/MobileSuitGundamTheWitchFromMercury'' keeps the situation on Earth unstable so that they can profit off of it by creating the Mobile Suits used for the wars. [[spoiler:In the GrandFinale, Miorine, as president of the group, ''completely dissolves it'' and gives the resulting monetary assets to the governments to help rebuild]].
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* Remove the "Profit" and the twisted individual that is [[BigBad Sir Isaac Ray Peram Westcott]] from ''LightNovel/DateALive'' will make more sense. He has no [[ForTheEvulz reasons, objectives or even logical goals that can justify what he does]]. He [[ToCreateAPlaygroundForEvil loves any kind of atrocity]]; from murder, to [[OmnicidalManiac omnicide]], to [[ToThePain torture]], to [[ChaosIsEvil chaos and destruction]]. War is not an exception in his agenda. He transformed the center of Tenguu City into a battlefield and almost caused the destruction a entire city just for a "simple" end.
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* Remove the "Profit" and the twisted individual that is [[BigBad Sir Isaac Ray Peram Westcott]] from ''LightNovel/DateALive'' ''Literature/DateALive'' will make more sense. He has no [[ForTheEvulz reasons, objectives or even logical goals that can justify what he does]]. He [[ToCreateAPlaygroundForEvil loves any kind of atrocity]]; from murder, to [[OmnicidalManiac omnicide]], to [[ToThePain torture]], to [[ChaosIsEvil chaos and destruction]]. War is not an exception in his agenda. He transformed the center of Tenguu City into a battlefield and almost caused the destruction a entire city just for a "simple" end.
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* ''Lightnovel/FullMetalPanic: The Second Raid''. Amalgam starts wars in order to test, demonstrate, and create a market for its Black Technology.
* The villain from one of the ''LightNovel/DirtyPair'' OVA episodes is a military contractor who has helped to incite (and finance) a rebellion against his own country in order to sell weapons to the guerrillas. He keeps upping the stakes by [[ArmsRace gradually selling each side better weapons]].
* The villain from one of the ''LightNovel/DirtyPair'' OVA episodes is a military contractor who has helped to incite (and finance) a rebellion against his own country in order to sell weapons to the guerrillas. He keeps upping the stakes by [[ArmsRace gradually selling each side better weapons]].
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* ''Lightnovel/FullMetalPanic: ''Literature/FullMetalPanic: The Second Raid''. Amalgam starts wars in order to test, demonstrate, and create a market for its Black Technology.
* The villain from one of the''LightNovel/DirtyPair'' ''Literature/DirtyPair'' OVA episodes is a military contractor who has helped to incite (and finance) a rebellion against his own country in order to sell weapons to the guerrillas. He keeps upping the stakes by [[ArmsRace gradually selling each side better weapons]].
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* This is the main plot of ''LightNovel/{{Maoyu}}'', with the reason being that the war has benefited both humans and demons and if the war ends, there will be civil war which would be a lot worse. Thus, even though the heroes include all of the most powerful fighters on the human side and the leader of the demons, they have to slowly and carefully end the war so that the war-based economies that have gone on for centuries won't collapse. It's later revealed that [[spoiler:the [[CorruptChurch Central Church]] and [[ProudWarriorRace Blue Demon Tribe]], the driving force behind the human war effort and the most militant of the demons, respectively, have been conspiring together all along to maintain an eternal war]].
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* This is the main plot of ''LightNovel/{{Maoyu}}'', ''Literature/{{Maoyu}}'', with the reason being that the war has benefited both humans and demons and if the war ends, there will be civil war which would be a lot worse. Thus, even though the heroes include all of the most powerful fighters on the human side and the leader of the demons, they have to slowly and carefully end the war so that the war-based economies that have gone on for centuries won't collapse. It's later revealed that [[spoiler:the [[CorruptChurch Central Church]] and [[ProudWarriorRace Blue Demon Tribe]], the driving force behind the human war effort and the most militant of the demons, respectively, have been conspiring together all along to maintain an eternal war]].
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* ''LightNovel/SwordPrincessAltina'' has not one, but two (if not more) groups of nobility who are all about this. The title character's own oldest brother, and crown prince, wants Belgaria to be in a constant state of war to justify constantly building up army infrastructure, and tries to convince himself, and anyone who will listen, that this is NecessarilyEvil for the country's continued existence and prosperity. The court of High Britannia in volume 4 is no better. [[spoiler: Second in line to the throne, Margaret, tries to assassinate her own sister, Elizabeth, and despite failing that, seizes the crown, and orders war with the nation of Belgaria, without cause or provocation, all because she was bored. Her attendant, deliberately enraged a mortally ill Queen into a heart-attack to speed up the need for a coronation, and furtively supports a ForeverWar purely for its own sake, and his own amusement.]]
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* ''LightNovel/SwordPrincessAltina'' ''Literature/SwordPrincessAltina'' has not one, but two (if not more) groups of nobility who are all about this. The title character's own oldest brother, and crown prince, wants Belgaria to be in a constant state of war to justify constantly building up army infrastructure, and tries to convince himself, and anyone who will listen, that this is NecessarilyEvil for the country's continued existence and prosperity. The court of High Britannia in volume 4 is no better. [[spoiler: Second in line to the throne, Margaret, tries to assassinate her own sister, Elizabeth, and despite failing that, seizes the crown, and orders war with the nation of Belgaria, without cause or provocation, all because she was bored. Her attendant, deliberately enraged a mortally ill Queen into a heart-attack to speed up the need for a coronation, and furtively supports a ForeverWar purely for its own sake, and his own amusement.]]
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* In ''Manga/FullmetalAlchemist'', Father incited wars with Amestris's neighbors just so there would be a lot of human souls released at certain points along the massive nation-spanning transmutation circle he needed to open the Gate. The [[Anime/FullmetalAlchemist anime]] was no better; instead, the wars were all incited by Dante in order to cause enough despair in order for philosopher stones to be made. Then she would take those stones for herself.
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* ''Franchise/FullmetalAlchemist'':
** In ''Manga/FullmetalAlchemist'', Father incited wars with Amestris's neighbors just so there would be a lot of human souls released at certain points along the massive nation-spanning transmutation circle he needed to open theGate. The [[Anime/FullmetalAlchemist anime]] Gate.
** ''Anime/FullmetalAlchemist2003'' was no better; instead, the wars were all incited by Dante in order to cause enough despair in order for philosopher stones to be made. Then she would take those stones for herself.
** In ''Manga/FullmetalAlchemist'', Father incited wars with Amestris's neighbors just so there would be a lot of human souls released at certain points along the massive nation-spanning transmutation circle he needed to open the
** ''Anime/FullmetalAlchemist2003'' was no better; instead, the wars were all incited by Dante in order to cause enough despair in order for philosopher stones to be made. Then she would take those stones for herself.
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* ''Anime/GhostInTheShellSAC2045'': After "The Great Default" bankrupted the global economy the major powers have adopted a policy of AI-regulated sustainable war in order to prop up the military-industrial complex that is now the only functional sector of the economy.
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* ''Anime/GhostInTheShellSAC2045'': After "The Great Default" bankrupted the global economy the major powers have adopted a policy of AI-regulated sustainable war in order to prop up the military-industrial complex that is now the only functional sector of the economy.economy.
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* Remove the "Profit" and the twisted individual that is [[BigBad Sir Isaac Ray Peram Westcott]] from ''LightNovel/DateALive'' will make more sense. He has no [[ForTheEvulz reasons, objectives or even logical goals that can justify what he does]]. He [[ToCreateAPlaygroundForEvil loves any kind of atrocity]]; from murder, to [[OmnicidalManiac omnicide]], to [[ToThePain torture]], to [[ChaosIsEvil chaos and destruction]]. War is not an exception in his agenda. He transformed the center of Tenguu City into a battlefield and almost caused the destruction a entire city just for a "simple" end.
* Lighthearted [[ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin literal]] example from ''Anime/DogDays'', war in [[SugarBowl Flognarde]] is a large scale gladiatorial sporting game that is [[NobodyCanDie mostly harmless and totally nonlethal]]. Countries involved place equal stakes and the winner takes the major portion. Individual participants are also rewarded based on their accomplishments.
* The Major from ''Manga/{{Hellsing}}'' doesn't care who wins, loses, or even why people are fighting. He just absolutely loves conflict for its own sake, as he explains during an [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z6wcw5jWRhc inspirational speech]] to his men before launching his assault on London. Further, the Major believes that WarIsGlorious as well and is gleeful in waging war against Britain, or rather the Hellsing Organization, specifically ''Alucard.'' His animosity toward Alucard is because the Major views the vampire as anathema to him. The Major was, in his own eyes, [[spoiler:a man with the trappings of a monster, while Alucard was a monster with the trappings of a man.]]
* ''Manga/{{Cyborg 009}}'':
** Black Ghost sent a group of mass produced cyborg men to help try to spark a war in 008's home country in Africa and proceeded to sell his advanced weaponry to both sides.
** In the original manga version it was in 'Nam during UsefulNotes/TheVietnamWar. This happens a few more times, as well. The Black Ghost Organization is pretty much the king of this trope, being run by a consortium of arms manufacturers.
* In ''Anime/LupinIIIMissedByADollar'', the villainess, Cynthia, arranges for a third-world military junta to stage attacks on oil-rich areas throughout the world, at the same time buying as much oil as she can. The desired result is perpetual warfare, giving her an eternal market.
* ''Anime/{{Madlax}}'' did this as some kind of bizarre magic ritual for a [[StrawNihilist Nietzsche Wannabe]]. In fact, a lot of people were expecting this to be the reason of Enfant backing the civil war in Gazth-Sonika, only to be surprised to learn that there was no immediately obvious profit--Enfant was arming both sides ''for free''.
* ''Franchise/{{Gundam}}'' series:
** The Romefeller Foundation from ''[[Anime/MobileSuitGundamWing Gundam Wing]]'' is the classic greedy military-industrial complex that manipulates warfare in order to line its own pockets, going so far as to create [[MechaMooks entirely unpiloted war machines]], turning war into a game for anyone rich enough to afford their own army. Later, it gets defied when [[RebelliousPrincess Relena]] is forced to become their figurehead leader and pulls an epic ReassignmentBackfire by convincing most of the Foundation to move in more peaceful directions -- or it would, if her reign as "Queen of the World", to use the Foundation's parlance, wasn't promptly ended by the [[EliteMooks professional military under OZ]] by Treize Khushrenada -- the very split of which from the Foundation was what ''Relena was appointed to address in the first place''.
*** In the radio drama-slash-manga ''Blind Target'', the BigBad is an arms manufacturer who's trying to start another war so he can make more money (and wants to steal the Gundams so he'll have the best products to sell). When the Gundam Pilots [[EngineeredPublicConfession engineer a public confession]], the rebels he had been manipulating instantly revolt and administer some [[KarmicDeath karmic justice]].
** ''[[Anime/AfterWarGundamX Gundam X]]'' has the Frost Brothers, who want a gigantic war because [[spoiler:they're Artificial Newtypes ([=Category Fs=]) whose creators rejected them for being unable to use the [[AttackDrone Flash System]] and now want to kill off anybody who is a real Newtype or believes in them]].
** ''Anime/TurnAGundam'''s BigBad Gym Ghingnham is a violent [[TheSocialDarwinist social darwinist]] who wants eternal war to cull humanity and leave only those strong enough to survive, whom he considers "true" humans. [[VideoGame/SuperRobotWarsAlpha In games]] [[VideoGame/SuperRobotWarsZ featuring both]] ''Turn A'' and ''X'', the Frost Brothers [[VillainTeamUp often willingly and gladly work for Gym]] despite being backstabbers extraordinaire in their home series.
** Logos from ''[[Anime/MobileSuitGundamSeedDestiny Gundam SEED Destiny]]'' is in the same vein as Romefeller, and have done this all throughout history if Chairman Durandal can be taken at face value. What ''is'' true is that they turned a simple environmentalist group into frothing anti-Coordinator terrorist group who [[TheManBehindTheMan pull the strings of]] TheFederation.
** This is the motivation of ''[[Anime/MobileSuitGundam00 Gundam 00's]]'' Ali al-Saachez, but [[ForTheEvulz more for the fun part]] (the money does help though; keeping up to date on military equipment is expensive after all).
** Desil Galette from ''[[Anime/MobileSuitGundamAge Gundam AGE]]'' somehow manages to outdo the above examples. An AcePilot [[spoiler:for the UE]], this monstrous [[EnfanteTerrible brat]] views war as a game and ''the soldiers as toys at his disposal.''
*** Decil and Ali are both modeled on [[SociopathicSoldier Yazan Gable]] of ''[[Anime/MobileSuitZetaGundam Zeta Gundam]]'', who joined the [[StateSec Titans]] solely for the chance to kill AEUG supporters. Jamitov Hymen, who's using the war to move himself into a position of power over the Earth Federation, and [[DarkMessiah Paptimus Scirocco]], who manipulates the conflict so that he can seize control of the Titans from Jamitov, are no better (Yazan ultimately signs on with Scirocco, who as a MadScientist can also provide Yazan with all the latest high-tech weaponry to kill people with).
** [[MegaCorp Anaheim Electronics]] had done this for quite a bit, from [[Anime/MobileSuitZetaGundam selling weapons to all sides]], [[Anime/MobileSuitGundam0083StardustMemory building a Mobile Suit with nuclear strike capability just because they can]], to [[Anime/MobileSuitGundamUnicorn concealing documents that could have prevented the One Year War so they could make more weapons]]. AE was able to get away with it for a long time because the winners of each war were so reliant on AE-provided weaponry that they failed to notice how most of the wars never would've even happened if not for AE's manipulations. And that's just the '''First''' Universal Century; in the ''[[Anime/MobileSuitGundamF91 F91]]'' era, after losing favor to the Federation's in-house think tank SNRI, Anaheim responds by outright stealing SNRI's tech (''Silhouette Formula 91'') and helping Zeon remnants try to invade Earth (''Gundam F90: Formula Wars 0122'' UsefulNotes/SuperFamicom game).
** Nobliss Gordon of ''Anime/MobileSuitGundamIronBloodedOrphans'' does this with Gjallarhorn and other parties in a vicious cycle of greed. First find the agitated masses looking for Independence and economic rights, then get someone to band around their cause and arm the people involved and hire Teiwaz to run the weapon shipments to the activists involved and watch as it all crumbles apart after the rebels fail at the hands of Gjallarhorn. This song and dance goes on until Ride kills Nobliss in response for killing Orga.
* The Atreide Company from ''Anime/{{Noir}}'' is in this line of work - with the front of being an International Security Service, they sell complete coup d'etat packages to interested factions in unstable regions, toppling governments in return for resource rights. From training the soldiers and providing the weapons, right down to planning the actual takeover, all you need to do is provide a charismatic face for the Revolution!
** [[AssholeVictim And then Mireille and Kirika kill them all.]]
* ''Manga/OnePiece'':
** Sir Crocodile inspires a rebellion in the kingdom of Alabasta by framing the King for stealing the rain, as well as some other villainous deeds. He does all this to force the king into telling him the location of an ancient superweapon.
** Don Quixote Doflamingo runs a massive underground weapons running business from Dressrosa. He uses weapons he buys / trades from Caesar Clown and Kaido and sells them to nations at war. It's implied that he's even been going as far as to interfere in the affairs of other nations provoke wars just to have a market.
* Orochimaru, the BigBad of ''Manga/{{Naruto}}'', loves doing this. He seems to consider it an art-form (but only if ''he'' is responsible -- he thinks any other war is pointless).
** This was also Akatsuki's stated aim initially: They would start a bunch of wars, and Akatsuki would offer their services cheaper than that of the ninja villages to one side, quickly quelling them and monopolizing the shinobi market across the globe, and the ninja villages will gradually diminish, giving them military control over the world. The ''real'' aims of Akatsuki actually turn out to be even [[UtopiaJustifiesTheMeans more]] [[AssimilationPlot insidious]]...
* ''Lightnovel/FullMetalPanic: The Second Raid''. Amalgam starts wars in order to test, demonstrate, and create a market for its Black Technology.
* The villain from one of the ''LightNovel/DirtyPair'' OVA episodes is a military contractor who has helped to incite (and finance) a rebellion against his own country in order to sell weapons to the guerrillas. He keeps upping the stakes by [[ArmsRace gradually selling each side better weapons]].
* In ''Manga/NegimaMagisterNegiMagi'', the war that split the MagicWorld twenty years ago was due to Fate Averruncus's group Kosmo Entelecheia, who wanted everyone else off their backs while they kidnapped a princess and used her to power their massive ritual (it's easier if the princess's home country thinks the enemy did it).
* This is the main plot of ''LightNovel/{{Maoyu}}'', with the reason being that the war has benefited both humans and demons and if the war ends, there will be civil war which would be a lot worse. Thus, even though the heroes include all of the most powerful fighters on the human side and the leader of the demons, they have to slowly and carefully end the war so that the war-based economies that have gone on for centuries won't collapse. It's later revealed that [[spoiler:the [[CorruptChurch Central Church]] and [[ProudWarriorRace Blue Demon Tribe]], the driving force behind the human war effort and the most militant of the demons, respectively, have been conspiring together all along to maintain an eternal war]].
* In ''Manga/FullmetalAlchemist'', Father incited wars with Amestris's neighbors just so there would be a lot of human souls released at certain points along the massive nation-spanning transmutation circle he needed to open the Gate. The [[Anime/FullmetalAlchemist anime]] was no better; instead, the wars were all incited by Dante in order to cause enough despair in order for philosopher stones to be made. Then she would take those stones for herself.
* ''LightNovel/SwordPrincessAltina'' has not one, but two (if not more) groups of nobility who are all about this. The title character's own oldest brother, and crown prince, wants Belgaria to be in a constant state of war to justify constantly building up army infrastructure, and tries to convince himself, and anyone who will listen, that this is NecessarilyEvil for the country's continued existence and prosperity. The court of High Britannia in volume 4 is no better. [[spoiler: Second in line to the throne, Margaret, tries to assassinate her own sister, Elizabeth, and despite failing that, seizes the crown, and orders war with the nation of Belgaria, without cause or provocation, all because she was bored. Her attendant, deliberately enraged a mortally ill Queen into a heart-attack to speed up the need for a coronation, and furtively supports a ForeverWar purely for its own sake, and his own amusement.]]
* ''Anime/YuGiOhArcV'' has the [[spoiler: Duel Academy]] teach it's students to commit mass genocide as part of a twisted series of "[[HuntingTheMostDangerousGame hunting games]]," producing sadistic ChildSoldiers and unleashing them [[spoiler:in another dimension]]. However considering the franchise (and the giant glowing machine in the {{Big Bad}}'s lair that [[ItMakesSenseInContext seems to contain a bunch of human souls trapped in cards]]) this is probably just a cover for a mass HumanSacrifice plot.
* ''Manga/{{Ajin}}'': Sato, leader of the Ajin resistance, claims to be fighting for the freedom of his species, but he's actually a NotSoWellIntentionedExtremist who simply wants to start a war with humanity for his own amusement.
* ''Anime/GhostInTheShellSAC2045'': After "The Great Default" bankrupted the global economy the major powers have adopted a policy of AI-regulated sustainable war in order to prop up the military-industrial complex that is now the only functional sector of the economy.
* Lighthearted [[ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin literal]] example from ''Anime/DogDays'', war in [[SugarBowl Flognarde]] is a large scale gladiatorial sporting game that is [[NobodyCanDie mostly harmless and totally nonlethal]]. Countries involved place equal stakes and the winner takes the major portion. Individual participants are also rewarded based on their accomplishments.
* The Major from ''Manga/{{Hellsing}}'' doesn't care who wins, loses, or even why people are fighting. He just absolutely loves conflict for its own sake, as he explains during an [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z6wcw5jWRhc inspirational speech]] to his men before launching his assault on London. Further, the Major believes that WarIsGlorious as well and is gleeful in waging war against Britain, or rather the Hellsing Organization, specifically ''Alucard.'' His animosity toward Alucard is because the Major views the vampire as anathema to him. The Major was, in his own eyes, [[spoiler:a man with the trappings of a monster, while Alucard was a monster with the trappings of a man.]]
* ''Manga/{{Cyborg 009}}'':
** Black Ghost sent a group of mass produced cyborg men to help try to spark a war in 008's home country in Africa and proceeded to sell his advanced weaponry to both sides.
** In the original manga version it was in 'Nam during UsefulNotes/TheVietnamWar. This happens a few more times, as well. The Black Ghost Organization is pretty much the king of this trope, being run by a consortium of arms manufacturers.
* In ''Anime/LupinIIIMissedByADollar'', the villainess, Cynthia, arranges for a third-world military junta to stage attacks on oil-rich areas throughout the world, at the same time buying as much oil as she can. The desired result is perpetual warfare, giving her an eternal market.
* ''Anime/{{Madlax}}'' did this as some kind of bizarre magic ritual for a [[StrawNihilist Nietzsche Wannabe]]. In fact, a lot of people were expecting this to be the reason of Enfant backing the civil war in Gazth-Sonika, only to be surprised to learn that there was no immediately obvious profit--Enfant was arming both sides ''for free''.
* ''Franchise/{{Gundam}}'' series:
** The Romefeller Foundation from ''[[Anime/MobileSuitGundamWing Gundam Wing]]'' is the classic greedy military-industrial complex that manipulates warfare in order to line its own pockets, going so far as to create [[MechaMooks entirely unpiloted war machines]], turning war into a game for anyone rich enough to afford their own army. Later, it gets defied when [[RebelliousPrincess Relena]] is forced to become their figurehead leader and pulls an epic ReassignmentBackfire by convincing most of the Foundation to move in more peaceful directions -- or it would, if her reign as "Queen of the World", to use the Foundation's parlance, wasn't promptly ended by the [[EliteMooks professional military under OZ]] by Treize Khushrenada -- the very split of which from the Foundation was what ''Relena was appointed to address in the first place''.
*** In the radio drama-slash-manga ''Blind Target'', the BigBad is an arms manufacturer who's trying to start another war so he can make more money (and wants to steal the Gundams so he'll have the best products to sell). When the Gundam Pilots [[EngineeredPublicConfession engineer a public confession]], the rebels he had been manipulating instantly revolt and administer some [[KarmicDeath karmic justice]].
** ''[[Anime/AfterWarGundamX Gundam X]]'' has the Frost Brothers, who want a gigantic war because [[spoiler:they're Artificial Newtypes ([=Category Fs=]) whose creators rejected them for being unable to use the [[AttackDrone Flash System]] and now want to kill off anybody who is a real Newtype or believes in them]].
** ''Anime/TurnAGundam'''s BigBad Gym Ghingnham is a violent [[TheSocialDarwinist social darwinist]] who wants eternal war to cull humanity and leave only those strong enough to survive, whom he considers "true" humans. [[VideoGame/SuperRobotWarsAlpha In games]] [[VideoGame/SuperRobotWarsZ featuring both]] ''Turn A'' and ''X'', the Frost Brothers [[VillainTeamUp often willingly and gladly work for Gym]] despite being backstabbers extraordinaire in their home series.
** Logos from ''[[Anime/MobileSuitGundamSeedDestiny Gundam SEED Destiny]]'' is in the same vein as Romefeller, and have done this all throughout history if Chairman Durandal can be taken at face value. What ''is'' true is that they turned a simple environmentalist group into frothing anti-Coordinator terrorist group who [[TheManBehindTheMan pull the strings of]] TheFederation.
** This is the motivation of ''[[Anime/MobileSuitGundam00 Gundam 00's]]'' Ali al-Saachez, but [[ForTheEvulz more for the fun part]] (the money does help though; keeping up to date on military equipment is expensive after all).
** Desil Galette from ''[[Anime/MobileSuitGundamAge Gundam AGE]]'' somehow manages to outdo the above examples. An AcePilot [[spoiler:for the UE]], this monstrous [[EnfanteTerrible brat]] views war as a game and ''the soldiers as toys at his disposal.''
*** Decil and Ali are both modeled on [[SociopathicSoldier Yazan Gable]] of ''[[Anime/MobileSuitZetaGundam Zeta Gundam]]'', who joined the [[StateSec Titans]] solely for the chance to kill AEUG supporters. Jamitov Hymen, who's using the war to move himself into a position of power over the Earth Federation, and [[DarkMessiah Paptimus Scirocco]], who manipulates the conflict so that he can seize control of the Titans from Jamitov, are no better (Yazan ultimately signs on with Scirocco, who as a MadScientist can also provide Yazan with all the latest high-tech weaponry to kill people with).
** [[MegaCorp Anaheim Electronics]] had done this for quite a bit, from [[Anime/MobileSuitZetaGundam selling weapons to all sides]], [[Anime/MobileSuitGundam0083StardustMemory building a Mobile Suit with nuclear strike capability just because they can]], to [[Anime/MobileSuitGundamUnicorn concealing documents that could have prevented the One Year War so they could make more weapons]]. AE was able to get away with it for a long time because the winners of each war were so reliant on AE-provided weaponry that they failed to notice how most of the wars never would've even happened if not for AE's manipulations. And that's just the '''First''' Universal Century; in the ''[[Anime/MobileSuitGundamF91 F91]]'' era, after losing favor to the Federation's in-house think tank SNRI, Anaheim responds by outright stealing SNRI's tech (''Silhouette Formula 91'') and helping Zeon remnants try to invade Earth (''Gundam F90: Formula Wars 0122'' UsefulNotes/SuperFamicom game).
** Nobliss Gordon of ''Anime/MobileSuitGundamIronBloodedOrphans'' does this with Gjallarhorn and other parties in a vicious cycle of greed. First find the agitated masses looking for Independence and economic rights, then get someone to band around their cause and arm the people involved and hire Teiwaz to run the weapon shipments to the activists involved and watch as it all crumbles apart after the rebels fail at the hands of Gjallarhorn. This song and dance goes on until Ride kills Nobliss in response for killing Orga.
* The Atreide Company from ''Anime/{{Noir}}'' is in this line of work - with the front of being an International Security Service, they sell complete coup d'etat packages to interested factions in unstable regions, toppling governments in return for resource rights. From training the soldiers and providing the weapons, right down to planning the actual takeover, all you need to do is provide a charismatic face for the Revolution!
** [[AssholeVictim And then Mireille and Kirika kill them all.]]
* ''Manga/OnePiece'':
** Sir Crocodile inspires a rebellion in the kingdom of Alabasta by framing the King for stealing the rain, as well as some other villainous deeds. He does all this to force the king into telling him the location of an ancient superweapon.
** Don Quixote Doflamingo runs a massive underground weapons running business from Dressrosa. He uses weapons he buys / trades from Caesar Clown and Kaido and sells them to nations at war. It's implied that he's even been going as far as to interfere in the affairs of other nations provoke wars just to have a market.
* Orochimaru, the BigBad of ''Manga/{{Naruto}}'', loves doing this. He seems to consider it an art-form (but only if ''he'' is responsible -- he thinks any other war is pointless).
** This was also Akatsuki's stated aim initially: They would start a bunch of wars, and Akatsuki would offer their services cheaper than that of the ninja villages to one side, quickly quelling them and monopolizing the shinobi market across the globe, and the ninja villages will gradually diminish, giving them military control over the world. The ''real'' aims of Akatsuki actually turn out to be even [[UtopiaJustifiesTheMeans more]] [[AssimilationPlot insidious]]...
* ''Lightnovel/FullMetalPanic: The Second Raid''. Amalgam starts wars in order to test, demonstrate, and create a market for its Black Technology.
* The villain from one of the ''LightNovel/DirtyPair'' OVA episodes is a military contractor who has helped to incite (and finance) a rebellion against his own country in order to sell weapons to the guerrillas. He keeps upping the stakes by [[ArmsRace gradually selling each side better weapons]].
* In ''Manga/NegimaMagisterNegiMagi'', the war that split the MagicWorld twenty years ago was due to Fate Averruncus's group Kosmo Entelecheia, who wanted everyone else off their backs while they kidnapped a princess and used her to power their massive ritual (it's easier if the princess's home country thinks the enemy did it).
* This is the main plot of ''LightNovel/{{Maoyu}}'', with the reason being that the war has benefited both humans and demons and if the war ends, there will be civil war which would be a lot worse. Thus, even though the heroes include all of the most powerful fighters on the human side and the leader of the demons, they have to slowly and carefully end the war so that the war-based economies that have gone on for centuries won't collapse. It's later revealed that [[spoiler:the [[CorruptChurch Central Church]] and [[ProudWarriorRace Blue Demon Tribe]], the driving force behind the human war effort and the most militant of the demons, respectively, have been conspiring together all along to maintain an eternal war]].
* In ''Manga/FullmetalAlchemist'', Father incited wars with Amestris's neighbors just so there would be a lot of human souls released at certain points along the massive nation-spanning transmutation circle he needed to open the Gate. The [[Anime/FullmetalAlchemist anime]] was no better; instead, the wars were all incited by Dante in order to cause enough despair in order for philosopher stones to be made. Then she would take those stones for herself.
* ''LightNovel/SwordPrincessAltina'' has not one, but two (if not more) groups of nobility who are all about this. The title character's own oldest brother, and crown prince, wants Belgaria to be in a constant state of war to justify constantly building up army infrastructure, and tries to convince himself, and anyone who will listen, that this is NecessarilyEvil for the country's continued existence and prosperity. The court of High Britannia in volume 4 is no better. [[spoiler: Second in line to the throne, Margaret, tries to assassinate her own sister, Elizabeth, and despite failing that, seizes the crown, and orders war with the nation of Belgaria, without cause or provocation, all because she was bored. Her attendant, deliberately enraged a mortally ill Queen into a heart-attack to speed up the need for a coronation, and furtively supports a ForeverWar purely for its own sake, and his own amusement.]]
* ''Anime/YuGiOhArcV'' has the [[spoiler: Duel Academy]] teach it's students to commit mass genocide as part of a twisted series of "[[HuntingTheMostDangerousGame hunting games]]," producing sadistic ChildSoldiers and unleashing them [[spoiler:in another dimension]]. However considering the franchise (and the giant glowing machine in the {{Big Bad}}'s lair that [[ItMakesSenseInContext seems to contain a bunch of human souls trapped in cards]]) this is probably just a cover for a mass HumanSacrifice plot.
* ''Manga/{{Ajin}}'': Sato, leader of the Ajin resistance, claims to be fighting for the freedom of his species, but he's actually a NotSoWellIntentionedExtremist who simply wants to start a war with humanity for his own amusement.
* ''Anime/GhostInTheShellSAC2045'': After "The Great Default" bankrupted the global economy the major powers have adopted a policy of AI-regulated sustainable war in order to prop up the military-industrial complex that is now the only functional sector of the economy.
