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Laughably Evil (trope)

"He's an absolutely awful human being. The strange thing about comedy is that if an awful character makes people laugh, people feel affectionate towards him. It's insane because if they had to sit next to him for five minutes at a dinner, they would absolutely not be able to cope with him. They would loathe him. But because he makes them laugh, they think, deep down, he's alright."

Villains can be many things... magnificent, horrific, self-obsessed, philosophical, and even sympathetic... but special attention goes to the villain that makes you laugh. It might be because they’re an idiot, it might be that you empathize with them, it might be because they’re quick with a quip, or it might be simply that their actions are so unexpected. In any case, some villains will always be funny.

Of course, funny does not always equal weak. Praise be to the villain who can cause a chuckle from the audience, right before viciously thwarting the hero's best efforts. In fact, if done correctly, the very things that make a villain qualify can make them downright disturbing once they begin crossing the Moral Event Horizon. Villain laughing at faking someone out with a gun with a "BANG!" flag coming out? Funny. Same villain doing the exact same laugh when shooting them for real a few seconds later? Creepy. A truly well written one can manage to pull off both at once. See the trope picture for an excellent example of this subtype. Just because a character qualifies, it does not prevent them from being completely evil and there are many villains that manage to be both (again, see the page image). In these cases, what makes them funny also makes them very unsettling because of how much fun they have committing the most horrific acts possible.

Often overlaps with the Harmless Villain (Harmless Villains are inherently funny, but funny villains are not inherently harmless), Affably Evil, Faux Affably Evil (who are often funny), Love to Hate, the Ineffectual Sympathetic Villain and Magnificent Bastard. And with Evil Is Hammy (playing a villain seems to be very fun). It's also a prerequisite for the Bumbling Henchmen Duo, the Terrible Trio and the Quirky Miniboss Squad. Interestingly, this either subverts or complements Evil Has a Bad Sense of Humor, as does Too Funny to Be Evil, a closely related sister trope. Tends to be the sort who Crosses the Line Twice. See also Laugh with Me! and Beware the Silly Ones. A villain who is laughably evil need not have an Evil Laugh, though it can help. Alternatively, they may have an Un-Evil Laugh. A particularly Card-Carrying Villain with emphasis put on the comical aspects of their "Bad Is Good and Good Is Bad" morality can very easily turn into a Laughably Evil villain. Can go with Godwin's Law of Facial Hair, where the toothbrush mustache is used to mock Hitler and evil authoritarians. Contrast with the Knight of Cerebus, who has little to no comedy around them and instead makes everything in the story darker. That being said, there are some villains that are capable of being both in certain cases.


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  • Jason Beck from The Big O. When he's not being an egotistical fop, he's actually frighteningly competent. Too bad this is overshadowed by his over the top hubris, which pushes him firmly into the "Laughably" part of this trope.
  • Dragon Ball:
    • Most of the villains of early Dragon Ball are like this. Such villains include General Blue, who is utterly hilarious in personality (and also Camp Gay and strongly insinuated to be a pedophile) but also a very deadly opponent, and Emperor Pilaf, who has no idea what he's doing.
    • The Ginyu Force from Dragon Ball Z are Frieza's top soldiers, and regularly lay waste to entire planets, and give the heroes the beating of their lives. They're also the definitive Quirky Miniboss Squad, who punctuate their beatdowns with well-rehearsed Super Sentai poses and play Rock–Paper–Scissors to decide who gets to fight when.
    • Majin Buu, especially in his Fat Buu form, where his antics and are so childish, goofy, and cartoonish that you almost forget that his "games" are killing millions of people, at least until the Establishing Shot of the barren wasteland where a thriving city used to be. Unlike others, he honestly doesn't know what he's doing is wrong (at least as Fat Buu), and Mr Satan manages to single-handedly convert him to good.
    • Beerus from Dragon Ball Z: Battle of Gods, for a certain value of "evil". He's a goofy cat-god who loves gorging on food, and also happens to want to blow up Earth for petty reasons.
  • The Team Rocket trio from Pokémon the Series are this, which is the reason why they are so popular. At least until Best Wishes, when their boss gives them an actual serious assignment. Once that season was concluded, they soon reverted to their original goofy antics.
  • Naruto :
    • Tobi's antics are harmless and silly, even though he is a member of the fearsome Akatsuki. Subverted as he was revealed to be Obfuscating Stupidity and is actually the Big Bad.
    • Then we got Hidan. A psycho priest who laughs every time he kills his opponents. How he does it is gruesome but it's his interactions with everyone tend to be hilarious despite the situations of some of them.
    • And to an ever so slightly less milder version of this trope, we got Deidara. He is also a bit crude in his methods as well, but he has his entertaining moments generously sprinkled in the series.
  • Dedede in Kirby: Right Back at Ya!. He's more evil than his game counterpart, but also one of the most entertaining characters on the show.
  • One Piece:
    • A number of villains are various shades of doof, such as Buggy the Clown, a Villainous Harlequin who's (violently) sensitive about his nose, Spandam, who alternately kicks the dog in new and horrible ways and makes himself look like an idiot, and Doflamingo, a vicious crime lord who likes wearing a pink feathery cape and is nicknamed "Doffy".
    • On the opposite side of the power spectrum is Kaku. The second most powerful member of Cipher Pol 9, he can transform into a giraffe. No, you didn't misread that. He can transform into an actual giraffe. Even better, he can transform into a half-man/half-giraffe. One that keeps his trademark square nose. He sincerely believes giraffes to be powerful creatures and during his fight with Zoro was prone to defending them by saying such things as "Witness the power of a giraffe!". Though that could be part-denial since everyone keeps mocking him for his powers. Oh, and he uses his nose as a weapon. Any animal that can kick a full-grown lion ass-over-appetite is powerful, even if their goofy build and lack of vocalizations in the range of human hearing obscures that fact. What makes the fight even funnier is that Kaku has just eaten his Devil Fruit, and is figuring its powers out as he goes along (bear in mind that many Devil Fruit users have to spend years learning their powers; for example, flashbacks show that when Luffy ate the Gum Gum Fruit, he had to go through quite a bit of training before he could even throw a proper punch). The funny moment comes when he discovers the aforementioned "shorten neck to extend arms and legs" move, reasons that it works on the same principle as a pasta machine, then names the move "Pasta Machine." Also in his favor is that, despite being a government agent, he's a pretty chill guy, even giving a good-natured laugh to a post-battle quip from one of the heroes.
    • Blackbeard introduces himself getting into an eating contest with Luffy, before becoming one of the Four Emperors.
    • Big Mom is a real threat and most of her problems are played for drama, but the lengths her Sweet Tooth goes (she even named most of her children after various confections) often add levity to her arc.
    • The final emperor, Kaido, is mostly a Knight of Cerebus... but he's also The Alcoholic and a hilariously destructive drunk.
    • Kaido's subordinate Queen engineers biological weapons and is actively abusive to his underlings, but is also a round and hammy man who describes himself as "funky" and is introduced with a dance number.
  • Mara from Ah! My Goddess. She takes time out of her busy day tormenting goddesses and attempting world conquest in order to knock a child's ice cream cone out of his hands to fulfill a snide wish by his sister. A truly admirable commitment to evil on any scale. For those who are wondering this happens in the first season of the TV series — if not in Mara's first episode, then in her first or second appearance after that. The scene in question actually makes her seem oddly like a Disgaea character, laughing maniacally at her "evil deed" and resulting in both of the kids kicking her in the shin simultaneously and high-tailing it, to her angry surprise.
  • Baki and Minki from Hell Teacher Nube. They're (nominally) evil, powerful, hugely destructive Oni, but the former adores ice cream, toys, and riding around on the little kids' train in the park, and the latter has some bizarre notions of what a good big brother/little sister relationship should be like.
  • Gates of Full Metal Panic!: The Second Raid is so over-the-top with his Chaotic Evil antics that everything he does is completely random. Despite the sadistic violence, this makes him even funnier.
  • Oda Nobunaga from the Sengoku Basara anime. It's not because he's dumb. Or incompetent. Or even snarky, for that matter. It's just that he's so mind-bogglingly, skull-stompingly, baby-eatingly evil that he becomes hilariously awesome just through his very existence.
  • The various teens of Ranma ½ could conceivably come off as this, as opposed to Comedic Sociopathy. Not one of them (except for Kasumi, and even she made mischief on some occasions in the early manga) has done something that doesn't make them look at least partially villainous, yet these same deeds (and the regulars who generally are villains) still manage to be funny because of their attempts at evil.
  • Almost all of the Order of the Glittering Star from Star Driver. Their everyday personas are so over the top that you can't fully take their villain sides seriously - all of them being hammy certainly helps too.
  • El-Hazard: The Magnificent World: Katsuhiko Jinnai is an Evil Genius, whose antics are constantly over-the-top and the delivery of his dialog ranges from snark, to bombastic.
  • Patlabor: Richard Wong initially comes across as a happy-go-lucky Manchild, to the point that it'd be hard to believe he's a villain, if the series didn't remind you of it by having his glasses glint every so often... except it doesn't have the usual effect, since his mannerisms don't change in the slightest.
  • The Golden Witch Beatrice in Umineko: When They Cry is aware that she is the villain of the series, and is just adoring the role. She's a Large Ham and she loves to chew the scenery, just listen to it when she talks to Battler. However, this is only in the anime, since in the original sound novels she's later revealed to be a good deal more tragic, and she isn't even the main villain in the first place.
  • Blastmon from Digimon Fusion is said to be immensely powerful, but has the mind of a 5-year-old and calls the other generals by nicknames. Then he's defeated by the heroes and is reduced to a hopping head for the rest of the series. Before him, there was Etemon, an over the top rockstar monkey who's both silly, and far stronger then the last Big Bad.
  • Prince Eccentro of Mon Colle Knights. He's the comedian of the anime, often accompanied by a Fiery Redhead and a Cloud Cuckoo Lander as two of his followers, thus why he's so popular with fans of the show. The aforementioned Batch and Gluko are also quite comedic. Quite often at the end of many episodes, Gluko often happily stands by and adores the scenery while Batch and Eccentro get rather embarrassing moments. They even get into rather comedic situations involving Ms. Loon.
  • Laharl in Makai Senki Disgaea has quite the reputation for having some rather funny moments. Also, in Episode 3, Vulcanus becomes this when he accidentally almost falls off a statue and causes it to fall, which leads to Flonne and Etna's clothing & personality swaps. When he finds Flonne sleeping with Laharl and Etna, he flips out and hits her with a This Is Unforgivable! and attempts to kill all three but accidentally falls into a clam exhibit and is unable to get out for the rest of the episode. Later, while he's still trying to get out, he knocks over the same statue again, causing clothing swaps again, this time for Laharl, Etna, Flonne, and one of the Prinnies.
  • Fullmetal Alchemist:
    • Barry the Chopper is an unrepentant Serial Killer whose lunacy, hamminess, and total inability to understand normal human morality is Played for Laughs. He ends up becoming Laughably Anti-Heroic later on post Heel–Face Turn, becoming a Heroic Comedic Sociopath.
    • Before he went all One-Winged Angel, Father had a tendency to make small, sardonic quips while horrendous battle raged all around him - usually along the lines of "Why does everybody feel the need to demolish my home?"
    • Envy is a disgusting, malignant sadist to be certain. But they're so comically inept and mindlessly hateful that they're able to make you laugh at their absurd physical abuse and comically self-superior behavior before horrifying you by gloating about another unspeakable atrocity. And Envy has godawful fashion sense and, according to Ed, looks like a palm tree with his hair.
  • In a similar case to Barry, Ladd Russo from Baccano! is a complete nutjob who loves killing just for the sake of killing. While it can be argued whether or not his actions are intentionally Played for Laughs, it's hard not to enjoy watching the guy have so much fun.
  • Macine Baron from Steam Detectives. A bumbling collector and inventor of steam-powered robots with a hilariously overblown Austrian accent; willing to steal the robots if he feels like it. Certain robots he's got his eye on are more-or-less Steampunk Roombas. Upon being defeated by Goriki, he develops a deep affection towards "him".
  • Sword Art Online: For a psychopathic player killer, Vassago Casals can be somewhat humorous when interacting with his allies. He has a tendency to make Gabriel uncomfortable by calling him "bro," constantly butts heads with Critter, shows childish glee in logging into the Underworld and joining the front lines, confuses his Underworld allies with MMO terminology, and frequently makes random tension-breaking comments. In a dark twist, his goofiness is just an act to hide his monstrous nature from his fellow Glowgen mercenaries. Once he logs into the Underworld as PoH and abandons the act, his physical and psychological violence against enemies and allies alike is played for horror.
  • Jan Valentine of the Valentine Brothers assassination team from Hellsing, he's very sadistic and cruel and he's also hilarious, he's very foulmouthed and loves to tell disgusting stories, he also treats the assignment like a game, and in the manga long after he's been killed he shows up from time to time to break the fourth wall.
  • Jake Martinez from Tiger & Bunny is basically the T&B universe's Joker. He's a Fantastically Racist terrorist, a serial killer, a kidnapper, a mercenary and an all around egotistical asshole who's threatening despite his... questionable wardrobe. And yet he somehow manages to say and do terrible things like murder an underling who failed him (& brag about it to people who had captured said underling), threaten to destroy a city if its heroes couldn't beat him, & force one of the heroes to help draw out his allies in ways that make them hilarious as they are horrid.
  • Transformers: Robots in Disguise:
    • Skybite is the Ineffectual Sympathetic Villain version.
    • Any Predacon who isn't Megatron/Galvatron is prone to making silly remarks and screwing up missions in absurd ways.
  • Undefeated Bahamut Chronicle has Yoruka Kirihime, who attempts to convince Lux to join the Arc Villain of Volumes 3 to 5. However, she lacks any sense of personal space or tact, causing her to create all sorts of awkward situations. This includes interrupting his math class, helping him mow a lawn with a katana, and washing his back in the school's bathhouse. This gets inverted after her Heel–Face Turn, where her lack of social skills and her inability to connect with others are played for drama.
  • While Berserk has always been a dark and edgy series, there are a few villains that stand out who are kind of hard to take serious.
    • Adon Corbolwitz, the big bragging leader of the Blue Whale Heavy Assault Knights of Chuder. While the other two villains of the Hundred-Year War Mini-Arc are not very funny (Governor Gennon is a Depraved Homosexual and a pederast wishing to make Griffith his lover, and General Boscone is a scary, no-nonsense military mastermind), Adon seems to go out of his way just to make the situation as laughably hammy as possible. Though he has nasty qualities as both a Dirty Coward and a Straw Misogynist who resents Casca a great deal, he's still just so over-the-top that you can't help but laugh. He brags about his great love for battle, as well as boasting about his family's secret techniques, passed down for over 1,000 years, and his dramatic entrances. It helps that Mike Pollock, the guy who voices Doctor Eggman, voices him, too.
    • While Griffith shaves all of this after becoming Femto, he still manages to be a pretty damn silly goof during the Golden Age, as seen during the water fighting scene and the scene were he shows Guts a pornographic book. While he’s not a villain at this point, he’s still rather evil, as shown when he smiles after Adonis is accidentally murdered.
    • Sinister Minister Bishop Mozgus straddles the line between hilarious and horrifying. He's an Obliviously Evil Large Ham with exaggerated facial expressions and mannerisms that make the numerous atrocities he's committed slightly harder to take seriously.
  • The Big Bad of Inuyashiki, Hiro Shishigami, is a Psychopathic Manchild Serial Killer whose naïve outlook and Blue-and-Orange Morality make him as amusing as he is terrifying. One of the series' most infamous moments is him brutally murdering a girl's entire family, then trying to hold a conversation about One Piece with her while she's in fear for her life.
  • Jujutsu Kaisen: Suguro Geto and the disaster curses are sadistic monsters trying to wipe out humanity and for most of them, there are no lows they wouldn't step down to in order to win. Still, their Villains Out Shopping antics and frequent bickering makes them quite enjoyable to watch, e.g. playing football with a severed curse head, lounging around in a restaurant or in their tropical beach-located base of operations. Special mentions goes to Mahito, the most sadistic of the group, with his cheerful behavior and occasional lapses in judgement that lead to even more satisfying moments of getting his ass kicked.
  • The Big Bad of Samurai Pizza Cats, the Big Cheese, is usually too busy crossdressing, flirting with his male subordinates (much to their disgust), or getting angry to be anything but hilarious. Granted he does get serious a few times, but they're almost always played for comedic value.
  • Project A-Ko's villains, with the exception of Gail and his Co-Dragons, are all comedic or have funny moments.
    • B-ko Daitokuji and her Girl Posse are the antagonists for much of the series, but B-ko's attempts to claim C-ko Kotobuki for herself tend to utterly fail more often than they come close to succeeding, and her rivalry and bickering with A-ko Magami is the main source of comedy. Her Girl Posse are a bumbling Quirky Miniboss Squad who get easily beaten by A-ko, even Mari, a female Expy of Kenshiro who is herself played for much laughs.
    • Captain Napolipolia and Agent D are two members of the alien Lepton Kingdom who launch an Alien Invasion halfway through the first film. Despite this, D is a joke- the first film's Running Gag is D getting run over by A-ko while she is speeding off to school and carrying C-ko with her; and while the Captain is intially portrayed as a legitimate threat, this lessens once she and D are revealed as manly-looking women, with D wearing a Battle Bikini and the Captain having a massive drinking problem that manifests in anger if she is sober. From the second film onward, they are purely comedic characters and represent no threat.
    • Mr. Hikaru Daitokuji, B-ko's father, is a Corrupt Corporate Executive who wants to steal the Lepton ship for himself and get even richer with its technology, and tries to force Kei into an Arranged Marriage in Final. But his mannerisms are so goofy that it's no wonder where his daughter gets it from.
    • In Uncivil Wars/The VS, Lady Xena, unlike the others, is a legitimately dangerous and vile villain. But she gets some scenes of comedy, mainly the ones where she throws childish tantrums because Gail doesn't want to let her destroy planets (he would rather they stick to their plan to head to the Talho Sector), and when A-ko and B-ko start arguing with each other in the middle of the final battle, she stands there with an amusing look of "are you serious" on her face.

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  • Atomic Robo: Recurring villain Dr. Dinosaur manages to be funny in all of his appearances, being a sapient dinosaur who considers himself an evil genius when his grasp of science qualifies more as technobabble gibberish at best.
  • Batman: The Joker is a sterling example of the trope. The trick in writing the Joker is to make his actions such that you can laugh one moment, and be horrified the next. Brilliantly brought out by many of the actors to portray him in other media, most prominently Jack Nicholson, Mark Hamill, Heath Ledger and Brent Spiner. Whether it's electrocuting a gangster while singing showtunes, casually (and cheerfully) stalking an everyday accountant in the middle of rush-hour traffic, or doing a magic trick by making a pencil disappear, you can always find it either way with the Joker. Even Cesar Romero qualifies, although because the show was such high Camp, he focused more on the "laughable" than the "evil".
    Paul Dini on the Joker: Joker's that perfect combination of schoolyard bully and class clown. The kind of sicko who will make you laugh just before he sticks the knife in and twists it.
  • Creature Tech: Jameson is a power-hungry undead Mad Scientist and demonologist. He's also the Meta Guy of Creature Tech, and as such spends most of his time making awful puns, references to other media, Chewing the Scenery, and hanging lampshades anywhere they'll fit.
  • Deadpool:
    • Deadpool, when he's the antagonist. Except for that one time...
    • Madcap is a Chaotic Neutral who acts deliberately silly, and whose power is simply to make people act uninhibited.
  • Doom Patrol: One-shot villain the Beard Hunter chews the scenery constantly and has a ridiculously intense hatred of beards, to the extent that he wears a belt made of the beards of men he has killed.
  • Green Lantern: Larfleeze can be accurately described as the Daffy Duck of the DCU. He's a greedy and short-tempered Psychopathic Manchild who constantly whines that everything he desires is his and is consistently shown to have a most unorthodox thought process.
  • Hawkeye: Hawkeye (2012) introduces the Tracksuit Mafia. If the name isn't enough indicative, they add "bro" to every sentence to drive their comedic nature home.
  • Lobo: Lobo might count Depending on the Author, especially if the ultraviolence gets cartoonish.
  • The Mask: Big Head, depending on the wearer (the mask itself travels from host to host). Stanley Ipkiss was this for sure, while Ray Tuttle from the "Hunt for Green October" arc had somewhat more heroic motivations. Most of the people affected by Big Head's actions are considerably less amused.
    Lt. Kellaway: Saving lives? With a chainsaw? You think that's funny?
    (Big Head just looks at him with an ashamed expression)
  • Paperinik New Adventures: The average low-caste Evronian is a bureaucratic, uptight goon who is easy to confuse and fool without someone from the higher castes around to explain the situation, leading to some amusing misunderstandings and hijinks. But when they get their orders, they demonstrate just why they're Planet Looters feared around the universe.
  • Preacher: Herr Starr.
    • Every time he shows up he has a smartass line, but he scares some poor old lady for blocking the moving walkway by yelling at her to step on it.
    "Moving walkway, Granny Fuck! Not moving fucking standway!!"
    • By this point in the series he's had to deal with "an angel, a whore, an eunuch, several dozen idiots, an unkillable mick, a one-man holocaust in a duster coat, the occasional twenty-course banquet for the mother of all fat fuckers, inbreeding, family feuds, bulimia, a retarded child (always good for a laugh), and the utter destruction of our most sacred shrine and secret retreat in the detonation of a fifty-ton bomb." And there's "having my head carved into a giant gleaming dong", so it's understandable that he'd be a mite testy.
  • Nnewts: Despite their murderous tendencies and wicked plans being taken seriously, both the Lizzarks and the Snake Lord have surprisingly frequent funny moments. For example, the Snake Lord spends most of Book 2 and part of Book 3 trapped in the form of a turnip.
  • Spider-Man: The Green Goblin, who, just like the Joker, can make someone laugh one moment, and horrified the next.
  • Superman: Superboy-Prime can come off as humorous when he's not terrifying, since a lot of his rambles make him come off as an arrogant, childish lunatic with little tolerance for not getting his way and having such wonderful bits of dialogue such as "I'll kill you! I'll kill you to death!"
  • Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles (IDW): The series tends to have fairly serious villains, but a few of them do fit the trope...
    • The IDW-verse's incarnation of The Rat King is an immortal trickster god who causes widespread chaos, death and destruction for fun and has taken over as the series' overall Big Bad but still gets all the best quips and one-liners.
    • Bebop and Rocksteady are just as stupid as they were in the 1987 cartoon...while also being incredibly dangerous and ultra-violent monsters capable of leveling whole city blocks. Wherever they go, Black Comedy ensues.
  • Teen Titans: In the comic of the 1980s, the alien despot Lord Damyn (High of Highs and Best of Best) played a supporting role to recurring villain Blackfire for all of two issues... but in that time, he managed to be both a relentlessly brutish, murderous dictator and bizarrely funny in every other panel.
  • The Walking Dead: Negan is a wonderful example of this trope, with his constant one liners, non-sequiturs, and profanity-ridden speech.

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  • Patrick Bateman from American Psycho. Christian Bale is clearly having an absolute blast playing the character. While Bateman is written (both in film and the original novel) to be as irredeemable as possible, Patrick's Large Ham tendencies, awkward interactions with people, his overreactions to anything he doesn't like, his childish and downright alien approach to the world around him (and his now iconic facial expressions and inner monologues) make him a master of Black Comedy.
  • Pennywise the Dancing Clown in It (1990) is hilariously wacky when he's not sadistically killing children. Being played by Tim Curry will do that for you.
  • Batman Film Series:
    • The Joker in Batman (1989), best demonstrated when he lethally gases almost everyone in an art museum...so he and his goons can graffiti the place to the music of Prince.
    Joker: Gentlemen! Let's broaden our minds!
  • The Joker in the The Dark Knight is one of the most sadistic takes on the character, but still gets in his share of zingers at the expense of mob bosses and Batman himself.
  • Alan Rickman as the Sheriff of Nottingham in Robin Hood: Prince of Thieves
    Guy of Gisborne: Why a spoon, cousin? Why not an axe, or...
    Sherriff of Nottingham: Because it's dull, you twit. It'll HURT. MORE.
    • Rickman's Hans Gruber from Die Hard also occasionally slips into this.
  • Austin Powers: Dr. Evil, Number Two, Frau Farbissina, and the rest of the gang. Dr. Evil's utter incompetence and sinister pinkie make him one of the prime examples of this. Then there's his hilariously traumatic childhood.
  • The Green Goblin is partially one of these in Spider-Man 1, mostly because the character itself is supposed to be that way, but also because he is so hammy.
  • In Chitty Chitty Bang Bang, the Childcatcher is legitimately terrifying and evil. But it's Baron Bomburst (and his wife) who brings the true villainous laughs. Especially when he was played on stage in the West End by Brian Blessed.
    Baron: (singing) You're my little chu-chi face, my cu-chi cu-chi wu-chi little chu-chi face...
  • In Extremities, the rapist gets all the funny lines.
  • Any film that's So Bad, It's Good. Particular examples are The Phantom of Krankor, Kobras, Torgo and The Master, Eros, Lisa, Claudette, and Chris-R, and CrEEEEEdence Leeeeonorrre Gieeeellllgud.
  • Four Lions centers around four aspiring British jihadists (suicide bombers) Omar, Faisal, Waj and Barry (a fifth named Hassan later joins them). While what they are trying to do is portrayed as dangerous and deluded as it actually is, their constant blunders, ridiculous schemes, continuous setbacks and general incompetence makes them endlessly fun to watch. In fact, all four of them have their own quirks that make them hilarious:
    • Omar has a tendency to rant and rave in Urdu, which often translates into some very colorful insults. He also uses The Lion King to indoctrinate his young son with some very inappropriate "true" versions of the Disney films. He's also the Only Sane Man and is clearly the most competent of them and even that leads to some moments of hilarity.
    • Barry is so Ax-Crazy and blatantly racist that it's impossible not to laugh. While he can occasionally act as the Only Sane Man when Omar isn't around, he's also the first one to concoct some utterly ridiculous plans to further the cause and his use of Insane Troll Logic utterly hysterical to watch.
    • Waj is a gigantic Manchild who equates suicide bombing with "Rubber Dinghy Rapids" and is often too stupid to realize what he's doing half the time.
    • Faisal is also very dim-witted, but he's also very delusional and has some very strange quirks and some hilarious "disguises" he uses to protect his identity.
    • Hassan loves Gratuitous Rap, records illegal behavior on purpose, and blatantly fails his own security checks.
  • Adenoid Hynkel from Charlie Chaplin's The Great Dictator. He is portrayed as infantile and crazy from power. Some consider this version of reality to be too humorous.
  • Ray "Bones" Barboni in Get Shorty. He can spin on a dime between being menacingly brutal, intentionally funny, and humorously incompetent. In one scene, he beats a character half to death and almost gets his balls blown off in the process. When Dennis Farina plays villains, they are usually both funny and nasty at the same time.
    • The same can be said of Farina's Jimmy Serrano in Midnight Run. Most of his lines are quite funny.
  • Not sure if that was intentional, but Komodo of Warriors of Virtue IS the missing Looney Tune.
  • Tuco in The Good, the Bad and the Ugly - it's debatable whether he's actually evil, because some consider him the most sympathetic and relatable character in the film, but he's far from a good guy and is absolutely hilarious.
  • Biff Tannen (and his relatives) from the Back to the Future trilogy. He's a jerk and a bully, but his stupidity leads to hilarious moments.
  • Freddy Krueger in A Nightmare on Elm Street sequels. Which is quite a feat from a rapist child-killer.
  • Large Ham Killer Doll Chucky in the Child's Play films, mostly the sequels, especially the fourth and fifth films.
  • Not exactly evil, but the title characters in The Usual Suspects have an empathic moment where they spontaneously burst out laughing in a police line-up— in fact, Bryan Singer lampshades this in an interview by saying that there's a certain humanity in a bunch of guys getting along and laughing together, even if they're horrible criminals. (The reality is that the actors themselves just couldn't get through the scene without breaking character and cracking up.)
  • Duamerthrax in the Dead Gentlemen's Demon Hunter movies. The films as a whole are pretty goofy.
  • The Octopus in The Spirit. Gems include the line "I'm gonna kill you all kinds of dead!" and accidentally making a clone that was only a head and a foot.
  • Pam Ferris as The Trunchbull in Matilda. While still managing to keep the character scary, no less.
  • Brick Top from snatch., a murderous gangster who feeds people to pigs and drops hilariously snarky lines.
  • Marvel Cinematic Universe:
  • Shooter McGavin from Happy Gilmore. True, he's more of a massive Jerkass than outright evil, but seeing him constantly get humiliated on the golf course and outside of it with his poor choice of words when he tries to insult Happy is too funny.
  • Given Evil Is Hammy with James Bond villains, most end up providing laughs (including ones made deliberately funny such as Boris Grishenko, played by Alan Cumming, in GoldenEye or Professor Joe Butcher in Licence to Kill) - but one that's both over-the-top comedic and downright threatening is Silva from Skyfall.
  • Tommy Devito from GoodFellas. Though he's a complete psychopath who kills for the slightest offense, whether real or imagined, he's still a very funny guy. Just don't tell him that to his face. Not unless you want him to Troll you by pretending he's about to kill you for it.
    Tommy DeVito: I'm funny how? Funny like I'm a clown? I amuse you? I make you laugh? I'm here to fucking amuse you? What do you mean funny? Funny how? How am I funny?
  • Nicky Santoro from Casino (another mob movie by Scorsese). Despite being your typical ill-tempered, foul-mouthed mobster played by Pesci much like DeVito (albeit with more standards) he has quite a few funny moments which usually are firmly in the Cluster F-Bomb territory when it comes to his insults.
  • Zartan has his moments in G.I. Joe: Retaliation while disguised as the President. Including one scene where he plays Angry Birds on his phone... after launching every single nuclear missile in America's arsenal.
  • Norman Stansfield in The Professional is a ruthless and psychotic DEA agent who has no qualms about murdering children but it's not hard to laugh or be amused at some of his deranged outbursts. Luc Besson confirms that this was intentional since they wanted to give it some humor to keep it from being too bleak.
  • Another Besson example is Jean-Baptise Emmanuel Zorg from The Fifth Element who is also played by the same actor as Stansfield (Gary Oldman). Every moment with him veneers into Chewing the Scenery, especially with his highly exaggerated Southern accent.
  • Gamer includes the appropriately named Rick Rape, who ends up being almost impossibly over-the-top until he feels like a living cartoon.
  • Lloyd Hansen from The Gray Man (2022) is a cheerfully sociopathic mercenary who never lets up on the wisecracking even when he's torturing and murdering people.
  • Jack Frost from the the horror-comedy film is a twisted and sadistic monster who can be funny in his lines.
  • Danny McBride in This Is the End has shades of this, especially after his Face–Heel Turn. Some of the comments from Possessed!Jonah aren't far behind as well.
  • In Ex Machina, Nathan eventually turns out to be villainous or at least very morally dark, but he definitely has a sense of humour and continues to do some hilarious things even after he starts kicking dogs.
  • Lord John Whorfin/Dr. Emilio Lizardo in The Adventures of Buckaroo Banzai Across the 8th Dimension. "Laugh-a while you can, monkey boy!"
  • Hannibal Lecter in The Silence of the Lambs is utterly horrifying every second that he's on screen, but he sometimes takes Dissonant Serenity so far that he becomes The Comically Serious.
    I'd love to stay and talk... but I'm having an old friend for dinner.
  • Just like the source material, Jim Carrey's Dr. Eggman in Sonic the Hedgehog (2020) is a manic Large Ham who HATES that hedgehog. The films dial it up by making him a smug Insufferable Genius who insults everyone he comes across.
  • Ivan Ooze in Mighty Morphin' Power Rangers: The Movie brainwashes the parents of Angel Grove into being slave labour and orders them to commit mass suicide when they're done. He's also a gigantic ham who gets the best lines in the movie.
    Tommy: We're the Power Rangers!
    Ivan: Whooo! Where's mah autograph book?!
  • Funny Man: The Funny Man is essentially a British Freddy Krueger. He warps the environment to kill people in inventive ways while treating the whole thing as a joke.
  • The Silence of the Hams: As befits a parody. Dr. Animal Cannibal Pizza is an amiable psychopath played by Dom Deluise, and a practical jokester.
  • Lord of War: There's something alarmingly disarming about Andre Baptiste, an African warlord who might casually shoot one of his soldiers one moment then seconds later comment how MTV is setting a bad example for the new generation.
  • In Scream, there are typically two killers. The more dominant one is typically an utter Hate Sink. By contrast, their accomplice is typically so psychotic and hammy that they're hysterical. Stu from Scream (1996) and Mickey from Scream 2 are standout examples.
  • No Escape (1994): Marek, a brutal gang leader, loves to joke and often does. His gang the Outsiders even laugh at all of these, though it could at least partly be from fear.
  • M3GAN has its titular robot. She is vicious and cold-blooded, but she responds to Gemma's accusations of killing people with an irritated retort. When she is preparing to kill David, she does a goofy dance with little explanation.
  • Muppet Treasure Island: Long John Silver, also played by Tim Curry, is hilariously evil in this adaptation, and also well-aware about what sort of movie he's in ("Upstage, lads! This is my only number!").
  • Hocus Pocus (1993): The Sanderson Sisters are a trio of comical witches who despite their quirky antics and snide bickering make no attempt to hide the fact that they’re devil worshiping wicked witches who Would Hurt a Child.
  • The Substance: Harvey is a despicable misogynistic asshole, but he also has a very loud, over-the-top personality that makes him amusing to watch every time he's onscreen.
  • V/H/S/Halloween: Fun Size and his assistant from the “Fun Size” segment act very silly, have voices like cartoon characters, make goofy jokes, and generally act like kid's show entertainers. That doesn't change the fact that they're psychopathic candy monsters who routinely turn rule-breakers into candy.

    Literature 
  • The title devil from The Screwtape Letters, who has no sense of humor himself. Lampshaded at one point where he complains that the girl the Patient is falling in love with is "the sort who would find me funny."
  • The Ciaphas Cain series tends to draw from this trope for its humor, only instead of the source being an individual villain, it is the Darker and Edgier nature of the Warhammer 40,000 setting itself that provides the source.
  • The pigs from Animal Farm can be this, especially Squealer. A case in point would be the morning after the pigs get wasted on booze and it is mawkishly announced that Napoleon (now suffering a hangover) is dying. Then: Great news! Our dear leader is going to be making a complete recovery. Anyway, I'm off to procure some books on brewing. Oink!
  • Croup and Vandemar from Neverwhere. Croup is a Large Ham who likes words far too much and Vandemar is a Big Eater who's very literal-minded and at one point pins his own hand to wall with a knife. They're entertaining, but they're also ruthless murderers who kill the heroine's family, play mind games with the main characters, and torture people to death for fun. Lampshaded by Croup himself.
    "Just because something is funny, doesn't mean it is not dangerous."
  • A Magnificent Bastard Shadowthrone from Malazan Book of the Fallen might be, but his quirks also make him a pretty funny one. Like the fact that he has a very dry sense of humor concerning his mommy-issues and crippling fear of women.
  • Humbert Humbert in Lolita is a classic example. The book deals with topics that should by all rights be utterly horrifying, but the constant absurdity and pretentiousness of the narrative Humbert concocts in order to convince the reader that he's Not Evil, Just Misunderstood turns the whole thing into a Black Comedy instead.
  • Muddle Earth (Stewart): Dr Cuddles is an example of this trope, since he's the Evil Overlord of Muddle Earth but never does anything which we in our world would consider remotely heinous such as murder or depravity or things of that sort. Justified; it's a fantasy novel for children set in a whimsically weird world which works on Alice's Adventures in Wonderland-style logic where what you mean and what you say are different, so he obviously can't be too evil.
  • A Song of Ice and Fire, features the utterly Ax-Crazy Vargo Hoat. He's known as "The Crippler" due to his tendency to dismember his victims. He leads the Brave Companions, a Sellsword Company that seemingly are hired specifically to terrorize the smallfolk, with their flagrant love of rape, torture, and murder. He also has a slobbery lisp caused by a swollen tongue, leading to any time he speaks being amusing. In-universe even, he's mocked for both his lisp and slobbering behind his back. As if to emphasize the "evil" part of this however, this swollen tongue is due to STD...that he got from raping someone.
  • Mammon in Magik Online is a far sillier foe than Shroud's previous villains with his Large Ham nature, Shameless Self-Promoter antics, along with his dynamic with his Girl Friday, Ace.

    Live-Action TV 
  • The Big Bad of Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D. Season 1, John Garrett, is actually pretty hysterical. He's an unrepentant monster with no redeeming qualities whatsoever, but he has a pretty spot-on sense of humor.
    Agents: How did they [Hydra] know you were coming?
    John Garrett: We told 'em!
    [Grant Ward shoots the two agents in the head]
  • The Comedian in The Amazing Extraordinary Friends is essentially a sane version of The Joker. Many of his jokes are actually pretty funny. It is a shame that he is also one of the most ruthless villains in the series, and doesn't care who gets hurt in his schemes, so long as the payoff is funny (to him).
  • Arrow: Damien Darhk is a Card-Carrying Villain and a highly dangerous Evil Sorcerer whose Evil Plan is to destroy the world, and his murder of Laurel makes him the first true Hero Killer of the show. He's also highly entertaining, largely due to the fact that he's visibly enjoying himself and various lines where he openly admits how evil he is. Due to a gradual Rogues' Gallery Transplant, he ended up being the Arch-Enemy to the Legends of Tomorrow. Darhk constantly popping up was a major factor in the show becoming more comedic, and towards the end of his arc he was more funny than menacing.
  • Barry: Fuches is an immoral, manipulative bottom feeder, but his relentless incompetence and Stephen Root's performance makes him a riot to watch.
  • All of the villains in Batman (1966)} fit, but the best examples are all of the one-shot villains who are unique to the show — and the Riddler, whose infamous riddles are continuously solved by a Boy Wonder who's otherwise only good for getting kidnapped.
  • Blackadder:
    • The titular character, Edmund Blackadder, is a selfish, manipulative and Machiavellian figure, but his tendency to screw up, his Deadpan Snarker attitude, misadventures in the chaotic times he (or rather they) live(s) in and Magnificent Bastard moments make him one of the most iconic comedic characters in British television.
    • The Witchsmeller Persuivant from Season One is a Large Ham who is constantly twisting the words of others to incriminate them so he can burn them at the stake.
    • Elizabeth I from Season Two is a Psychopathic Manchild who has people executed for trivial reasons and can be a Mood-Swinger to hilarious degrees. Her girly crush on Blackadder also hypes up how she's essentially an inexperienced teen girl in a grown woman's body.
    • Many incarnations of Melchett are scheming and lying (or just flat out Lethally Stupid), but his Cloud Cuckoolander tendencies make him endlessly fun to watch.
  • Breaking Bad:
  • Brooklyn Nine-Nine: Caleb, Jake's cellmate when he's wrongfully convicted and sent to prison. Objectively speaking, Caleb is probably the single most monstrous character ever featured on the show: a cannibalistic Serial Killer who targeted children, and clearly has no remorse for his crimes or even any sense that what he did was wrong. But the show is a comedy, meaning his crimes are frequently the source of dark humor, and Tim Meadows' Affably Evil performance is hysterical. The contrast between Caleb's genuinely friendly, easygoing personality and the absolute depravity of his crimes often strays into Refuge in Audacity territory.
    Caleb: My family hasn't been to see me since my trial. You eat nine people and all of the sudden they "don't know who you are anymore."
    Jake: What, what? Did you say "eat people"? Are you... a cannibal, Caleb?
    Caleb: Well, that's not how I would define myself. If we're going by what I'm most passionate about, I would say that I'm a woodworker. Why did you think I was in protective custody?
    Jake: I don't know, I guess I hoped you were another cop wrongly convicted of crimes you didn't commit.
    Caleb: Nope. I did all my stuff and more. There's tons they can't even trace to me. The secret is eating the evidence.
  • Buffyverse:
    • Spike can be quite funny, such as when he passes out in Angel's backyard and wakes up when the sun makes his hand catch fire in the Buffy the Vampire Slayer episode "Lovers Walk". Also in the Angel episode "In the Dark" when he watches from a roof-top while Angel saves a girl and provides sarcastic voice-over narration.
      As Victim: Oh, how can I thank you, you mysterious black-clad hunk of a night thing?
      As Angel: No need, little lady, your tears of gratitude are enough for me. You see, I was once a badass vampire, but love and a pesky curse defanged me, and now I'm just a biiiiiig fluffy puppy with bad teeth. No, not the hair, never the hair.
      As Victim: But there must be some way I can... show my appreciation.
      As Angel: No! Helping those in need's my job, and working up a load of sexual tension and prancing away like a magnificent poof is truly thanks enough.
      As Victim: I understand. I have a nephew who's gay, so—
      As Angel: Say no more. Evil's still afoot. And I'm almost out of that nancy-boy hair-gel I like so much. Quickly, to the Angel-mobile! Away!
    • Even Angelus is funny sometimes, in a sick sort of way. ("Othello and Desdemona! My favorite couple. Only Desdemona didn't love the other guy.")
    • Glory is the Alpha Bitch with apocalyptic plans.
    • The Trio start out as a mix between this and Harmless Villain. Then one of the subjects of their wacky hijinks points out that their Black Comedy Rape plan wasn't quite as funny or as hot to her, retroactively pointing out the Moral Event Horizon was crossed much earlier in the ostensibly funny episode. The Trio reacts differently: Warren goes monster, Andrew becomes an Ineffectual Sympathetic Villain, and Jonathan tries desperately to do a Heel–Face Turn but is prevented by the other two.
    • Before The Trio and Glory, there was the one and only chaos-worshipping Ethan Rayne. The guy is very cool and efficient in causing complete chaos, but his methods are downright hilarious. His grand entrance was in the Buffy the Vampire Slayer episode "Halloween", where he opens up a costume shop. Anyone who puts on his costume actually becomes the thing that they were dressing up as. As Spike put it, was just plain neat. In "Band Candy", he spikes school band fund-raiser chocolate so that any adult that eats it turns into a stupid teenager. Best of all though, is turning Giles into a Fyarl demon in "A New Man". Ethan Rayne at best is a Deadpan Snarker, but his methods easily place him squarely into this territory.
    • Mayor Wilkins, due to how completely consistent he is in his affable evilness to the point that his last words when he realizes that he's about to be blown up are "Well, gosh...".
  • The White Queen is this The Chronicles of Narnia (BBC), due to Barbara Kellerman's Large Ham performance in the role.
  • Basically all the villains in El Chapulín Colorado are of this variety; even their names normally have puns or funny meanings. From the "Scooby-Doo" Hoax villains that dress as monsters to scare people away for some reason to the parodies of Gangsters, Pirates and Gunslingers. Also Kiko from sister series El Chavo del ocho.
  • Dexter combines social awkwardness and constantly overthinking everything with the decidedly less relatable flaws of sociopathy and serial murder to create a character as hilarious as he is horrifying.
  • Doctor Who: The Master has been like this since the '70s. A well-written Master has the exact same wit and charisma as the Doctor — while regularly killing people for fun.
  • Like Kefka and The Joker, Alpha from Dollhouse can make you laugh and cross the Moral Event Horizon at the same time.
  • Basil Fawlty of Fawlty Towers is occasionally a Villain Protagonist with his haughty, high-and-mighty attitude. Basil desires to move up in social standing and attract a better class of customer to his hotel, but he's also verbally abusive to the help, only superficially nice to his guests, and his Hair-Trigger Temper and persistent zany schemes built on webs of lies keep getting him into all kinds of trouble. And when he's not the bad guy, he's a Jerk with a Heart of Jerk who shows that he really is a nasty human being deep down. In some episodes, Basil's jerkass behaviour makes him out to be the episode's villain, such as when he begins to antagonize an American tourist because he's an American, or tells his staff to not mention "the war" when German guests are coming, only to fall into Nazi salutes and German stereotypes. All of this is Played for Laughs, as the slapstick done to Basil is because he's getting his comeuppance for being such a jerk.
  • Game of Thrones:
    • Ramsay Snow/Bolton. In the books, he's a humorless psychopath who flays people alive and is portrayed like a real-life Serial Killer in medieval times. The show version keeps all of the book character's nightmarish deeds, but adds a heaping dose of Faux Affably Evil and Black Comedy to them. During his season-long torture of Theon Greyjoy, he alternates between deeds like peeling the skin off his finger and blowing a horn to wake him up... which is actually a form of sleep deprivation torture, and bad enough it becomes a ptsd trigger for Theon. Another point has him castrating his victim then eating a suggestively shaped sausage in front of him.
    • Bronn being a colossal asshole only serves to make him that much more entertaining, per contrast to most other evil characters on the show. Bronn wholeheartedly enjoys being a dick, and the victims of his harsher abuse generally tend to be even worse people than he is.
    • Euron Greyjoy can come across as rather over-the-top when he's not trying to intimidate anyone, to the point of cracking macabre jokes and even bluntly asking Jaime for sex tips. It's eminent how Euron doesn't take anyone, including himself, too seriously.
  • Gotham: Jerome Valeska, unsurprisingly, considering who he is based on. Most of the things he finds funny are horrifying, like the time he doused cheerleaders in gasoline and then asked them if they had a lighter. Sometimes his sense of humor is (a little) more harmless, though, and he's also prone to making quips, even (rarely) self-deprecating ones. For example, he once characterized his identical twin brother, Jeremiah, as their mother's favorite because he cleaned his room, did his homework, and didn't try to kill everyone.
  • Graceland gives us Ari Adamian, a sociopathic Armenian gangster who does absolutely deplorable things while making hilarious deadpan quips.
  • Mason Verger in Hannibal is a truly monstrous human being who literally drinks the tears of children, but is incredibly entertaining to watch.
  • Quite a bit of the criminals on Homicide: Life on the Street tend to be humorously incompetent Stupid Crooks. Most of them are guilty of murder, but they're so dumb about it it's hard not to laugh.
  • It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia: The Gang are a loathsome and despicable bunch, but their crazy antics are always hilarious to watch.
  • Kamen Rider:
    • Kamen Rider Fourze has the Cancer Zodiarts, who was the head of the high school's Rakugo club when he was recruited by the villains, and it still shows in his tendency to make puns mid-battle. Sometimes Cancer gets into Crosses the Line Twice territory, as with his "Open Mic from Hell", where he challenges people to make him laugh or lose their souls. When the Lovable Alpha Bitch starts a long joke, he zaps her mid-sentence and says "I never liked her anyway"; when The Stoic challenges him to a funny face contest, he gives a flat "no" and zaps him.
    • Kamen Rider OOO: Dr. Maki truly is a dangerous villain, especially as the series goes on. His callous stoicism is underscored, however, by a bizarrely persistent Running Gag involving his protectiveness over his Creepy Doll. Anyone who touches, looks at, or so much as breathes near the doll has to endure Dr. Maki's hysterical, hammy freak-outs, which is a complete 180 from the emotionless bastard Maki usually is. Even as the doll is treated to a Cerebus Retcon, they keep getting comedy out of it and Dr. Maki in increasingly weirder ways.
  • Lord Fear in Knightmare was a hilariously snarky villain.
  • LazyTown: Robbie is the show's Big Bad, but his antics and dialogue are hilarious.
  • All of the villains on The League of Gentlemen. There are very few shows that could make a pair of incestuous corrupt hick Serial Killers hilarious.
  • Lost: Benjamin Linus is one ruthless, manipulative, and downright creepy motherfucker. He also has some of the best lines in the series.
  • El Ecoloco from Odisea Burbujas, his name means “Eco-Crazy” and he is basically like a homeless man made villain, his main goal is to pollute the world. He even has his own song, pretty catchy: Amo el ruido y el smog [I love nois and smog].
  • Only Fools and Horses has a number of villains who have funny moments, but oddly enough, many of them are treated with surprising seriousness. However, the robber who traps Del, Rodney and Uncle Albert in the supermarket overnight, who calls himself "the Shadow" aka Lennox Gilby from The Longest Night is the standout example. He's treated with the same respect as other villains (such as Roy Slater), but that doesn't stop him from being quite possibly the funniest one-shot character in the entire series. His debonair attitude, his jumbling over his words and flat out stupidity and incompetence make for an unforgettable villain. Justified, as it turns out he's not really evil and only did what he did out of desperation. Doesn't make him any less funny. The fact that this is his only appearance in the whole show makes him all the more memorable.
    • The Driscoll Brothers (an obvious parody of the Cray Twins) are also played with surprising seriousness, but that doesn't stop them from coming out with something stupid or attempt to maintain their sinister persona after something dumb happens. In fact, it works better than it should.
  • Power Rangers has a lot of these guys, really - ranging from Squatt and Baboo the Tagalong Kid monster henchmen of Rita Repulsa to Flit the fly Combat Commentator.
  • The Sopranos:
  • Supernatural:
    • The Trickster/Gabriel always manages to deliver some sick and twisted poetic justice in a way that will make you laugh—maybe because it's completely ridiculous, extremely clever, or just funny.
    • The main reason Cowley was around for as long as he was: He was always funny enough to pick up the same kind of Popularity Power Castiel had. He did lots of awful things, but he always managed to remain likable with his Deadpan Snarker attitude, the nicknames he gave everyone and unorthodox management methods like in "The Man Who Would Be King" which shows that after becoming King of Hell, he got rid of all the torture and turned it into an eternal DMV line. A lot of the people who were coming in were masochists who enjoyed being tormented, but nobody likes waiting in line. He also gets a great Even Evil Has Standards rant in the otherwise-godawful "Season 7, Time For a Wedding":
      This isn't Wall Street, this is Hell! We have a little something called integrity!
    • While Lucifer himself averts this, Sam's hallucination of Lucifer in S7 finds some rather amusing ways to torment Sam, like singing "Stairway to Heaven" 50 times in a row and yelling in his ear with a megaphone.
      Pay attention to me, Sam! I'm bored!
    • Soulless Sam's complete Lack of Empathy led to some pretty hilarious moments in Season 6. Take, for instance, "Clap Your Hands If You Believe", when an unnamed woman tells him it must have been horrible to have his brother abducted by aliens.
      Sam: No! I mean, I've had time to adjust.
      Unnamed woman: Did it happen when you were kids?
      Sam: No. Half an hour ago.
    • Meg also got some pretty dark laughs. See her taunting Jo in "Born Under A Bad Sign" My Daddy shot your daddy in the head~ Also, after she's exorcised, Dean tells Sam "Dude, you full-on had a girl inside you for a whole week. That's pretty dirty."
    • Madge and Edward Carrigan, the pagan gods from "A Very Supernatural Christmas", are another example.
      Dean: *as they're preparing him to be sacrificed* Aaah! You bitch!
      Madge: Oh my goodness me! Somebody owes a nickel to the swear jar! Oh, do you know what I say when I feel like swearing? Fudge.
      Dean: I'll try and remember that.
      *a few minutes later*
      Dean: You fudging touch me again and I'll fudging kill you!
      Madge Very good!
    • The shapeshifter in "Monster Movie" also gets some pretty great moments. Particularly the bit with the delivery guy.
      Shapeshifter/"Dracula": Is there... garlic on this pizza?
      Delivery Guy: I don't know. Did you order garlic?
      Shapeshifter/"Dracula": *horrified* No!
      Delivery Guy: *bored* Then no, there isn't any garlic on it.
    • Although his very presence on the screen was Nightmare Fuel, Alastair still had a bit of this.
      *after Uriel calls him a "pussing sore* Name-calling. That hurt my feelings, you sanctimonious, fanatical prick.
    • Zachariah at times due to being such an over-the-top asshole. This side of him shows most in "Dark Side of the Moon", from calling Mary a MILF to retorting to Dean's mocking his baldness with "in heaven I have six wings and four faces, one of which is a LION".
    • Balthazar was also often this. A good example in "My Heart Will Go On" when he explains to Sam and Dean that he changed history to stop the Titanic from sinking, which isn't supposed to be possible, just because he hated "that movie".. He was lying.
      Dean: What movie?
      Balthazar: Exactly!
    • The series' original Big Bad the Yellow-Eyed Demon/Azazel is often viewed as one of (if not the) most evil demons on the show. However, the fact that he never fails to mock the heroes also makes him highly entertaining.
      John: Hey. [aims the Colt at Azazel] How stupid do you think I am?
      Azazel: [grins] You really want an honest answer to that?
  • Super Sentai:
  • The Vampire Diaries:
    • Even when he's balls-to-the-wall evil and murdering innocent people, Damon still makes you laugh.
    • Klaus. Being a Smug Snake, a Manipulative Bastard and one of the most selfish vampires in the world never get in the way of him being hilarious.
  • WandaVision has Agnes a.k.a. Agatha Harkness, who gets lots of snarky one liners and, after the reveal, absolutely revels in how evil she is. She even hijacks the 'sitcom' of Westview to play her own Villain Song! She's absolutely awful, having steadily insinuated herself into Wanda's life while causing her more and more pain, all to get at Wanda's power... but she is great fun to watch.

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    Podcasts 
  • Quite a few of the villains from The Adventure Zone: Balance, but especially Magic Brian, the villain of the Here There Be Gerblins arc, who has a ridiculous accent (similar to Taako's) and is ultimately disposed of when Magnus simply kicks him off of a ledge.

    Professional Wrestling 
  • Chris Jericho was one of these in WCW and in his early days in WWE as a dumb blonde muscle headed prima donna who thought he was a lot better than he really was. He beat Goldberg...or rather, a pale imitation in "Gilberg", and he almost lost to that! He knew 1004 holds and they were almost all ARMBAR!
  • Rikishi during his "bad man" phase. Yes, he tried to run over "Stone Cold" Steve Austin with a motor vehicle but he was still the man whose most prominent feature was his ass. In fact, this little stretch of his WWF career is considered one of the worst heel runs ever because people weren't laughing in any way intended.
  • When the Knights of the UK were put on edge, bad things happened. In Britani's case though, it was almost adorable. She's tried to use unwilling wrestlers such as Cheerleader Melissa as ventriloquist dummies, for example.
  • Since no one has kicked out of Bryan Danielson's inside cradle all year, you may now refer to him as "Mr. Small Package!" Why are you laughing? What's so funny? You're all just jealous because you'll never rate on his manliness meter!
  • After Santino Marella failed to get over as the "Milan Miracle", he got over this way, typically throwing silly insults at his opponents. Usually he's a weak character who gets whipped on, to get the audience cheering for a big, strong hero.
  • "Broken Matt Hardy" is an amalgamation of insane rambling in fake accents, piano-playing, and flying drones (among other things, it's difficult to package his gimmick properly in a few words). The segments involving him have hit Memetic Mutation levels in the pro wrestling community due to their gloriously cheese execution that involves so many out-of-context moments.

    Radio 
  • Old Harry's Game: The main cast includes Thomas Crimp, a demented murder-rapist; Gary, a demon obsessed with torturing people; and Satan himself. It's a comedy.
  • The Whisperer, from the Adventures in Odyssey episode "Accidental Dilemma", is treated as if he were incompetent, but between the lines, he has formidable equipment, tricks, and overall villainous cunning on his side. However, he is so consistently played for laughs that it turns out to be one of the funniest episodes (of what was ostensibly a comedy-drama) in a while.

    Tabletop Games 
  • In Nomine: Kobal, the Demon Prince of Dark Humor, makes a point of playing this up. His jokes and comedy make it seem like he's not that bad a guy — which is entirely his plan. His sense of humour is monstrous — one of his favorite "pranks" was the Children's Crusade — he's just good at making it seem affable. There is also his "blood brother" Haagenti, the Demon Prince of Gluttony, who also holds purview over torture and sight gags (which many consider to be a form of torture).
  • Magic: The Gathering: Goblins in any given setting tend to be psychopathic, destructive, homicidal, genocidal, suicidal and absolutely hilarious.
  • Pathfinder goblins, bless their psychopathic little hearts. Their culture honors pyromania, kleptomania, illiteracy, random slaughter and suicidal courage.
  • Warhammer:

    Theatre 
  • The Shredder in Coming Out of Their Shells will typically punctuate his monologuing with boats and hearty laughter.
  • William Shakespeare's villains tend toward this, since their extreme self-awareness and cynicism render them hilarious Deadpan Snarkers. Especially Iago in Othello and Edmund in King Lear.
  • Jesus Christ Superstar: King Herod combines this with One-Scene Wonder. If you're not chuckling by the end of his musical number something went wrong.
  • The Thenardiers in the musical version of Les Misérables, like in the book, are pimps, cheats, swindlers, thieves, grave robbers, extortionists and Abusive Parents and spouses. They're also the only source of anything approaching comic relief in the entire musical, with "Master of the House" standing out as the only genuinely upbeat song. Yeah, this is that kind of work.... This contrasts with the source material, where Mr. Thenardier is far from laughable, being an absolute ogre whom even Mme. Thenardier is scared of.
  • In Hamilton, King George III is hilariously malevolent every single time he appears. His sole functions in the story are to provide commentary for ongoing events in America at three points, each time to the exact same British music hall-style tune; witness America's devolution into partisanism under President John Adams (good luck!), and help pass out copies of the Reynolds pamphlet.

    Video Games 
  • Advance Wars: Days of Ruin:
    • Caulder is a FASCINATING example. Among other things, he releases a biological weapon and attacks civilians for the lulz — and he makes it funny.
    • There's also Waylon, a greedy coward whose honesty about his selfishness gives him all of the game's best lines.
  • Zorbak in AdventureQuest has transcended evil. He's Ebil! Mwahahah!
  • Escherion, the very first Lord of Chaos in AdventureQuest Worlds, becomes this trope at the end of the Chiral Valley saga when the hero reflects his inversion spell right back at him, inverting him and causing him to suffer the Humiliation Conga of ending up casting every spell he tries to cast on him/her on himself, and eventually turn himself into a harmless frog, which is a rather funny scene, to say the least.
    Hero: [after Escherion turns into a frog] Huh... I guess you inverted your powers. Every spell you try to cast on me, you actually cast on yourself.
    Escherion: *ribbit ribbit*
    Hero: ...I'm sure you just said something very rude in froggy.
  • Alan Wake: While the Dark Presence itself is a terrifying Eldritch Abomination from beyond perceivable reality, "Mr. Scratch," the Evil Twin of the titular protagonist that it creates to help it escape from its prison and who serves as the Big Bad of the Spin-Off Alan Wake's American Nightmare is an utter riot from beginning to end, what with being a megalomaniacal, absurdly flamboyant, and sadistic Serial Killer. Really, one only needs to listen to less than five seconds of Mr. Scratch's Villain Song "The Happy Song" to tell that both Ilkka Villi (his live-action actor) and Matthew Porretta (his in-game voice actor) are having the time of their lives playing him.
  • Atlas Reactor has Isadora, a hamster with an IQ of 6,000 and ambitions to Take Over the World. Unlike Veigar, she's fully aware of her adorableness, and takes advantage of it every chance she gets.
  • Baldur's Gate:
  • The Joker again in the Batman: Arkham Series. His plans are always horrific, he kills many innocent people, kicks every dog he can, and indulges in Evil Gloating. He's also still very funny, even some of his Game-Over Man taunts are funny. His Villain Song "Can't Stop Laughing" in Batman: Arkham Knight is a highlight of this, as he's taunting Batman over the grim events of the series, the Darkest Hour he's in, the deaths of Barbara and Talia, and how he's going to become a new Joker, and it's hysterical. However, this is notably averted in Batman: Arkham Origins where is his psychopathy is cranked up and he isn't funny at all, making him considerably more threatening and terrifying.
  • Yuuki Terumi of BlazBlue: most of the fun from watching him comes just from how he enjoys crossing the Moral Event Horizon at every given opportunity. Combine that with being an exceptional Large Ham, and a very efficient Manipulative Bastard, you have one villain you just can't help but laugh with even as he commits atrocity after atrocity.
  • Handsome Jack in Borderlands 2. He is absolutely, totally evil, and he is such an epic asshole that every conversation with him is side-splittingly hilarious. Many, many other antagonists and enemy Mooks also fit the bill. Face McShooty, a Psycho who desperately begs to get shot in the face (seriously) comes to mind. His mission even gets listed as "Shoot This Guy in the Face".
  • Bulletstorm: General Sarrano is an evil, manipulative, foul-mouthed bastard who delights in the suffering of others, gleefully betrays everyone around him, and is generally an all-around un-fun guy to be around. At the same time, he's a hilariously over-the-top jackass with a never-ending stream of creative invective to toss at anyone and everyone around him.
  • Foxbat from Champions Online. He's been described as an evil version of Adam West-era Batman.
  • City of Heroes's Dr. Aeon. While he's one of the non-harmless examples of the trope, it's more because he's such a scatter-brained moron that he ends up posing as much of a danger to the world as to himself.
  • Every villain in the Crash Bandicoot series.
  • Death Stranding: Higgs, despite being the most confrontational antagonist in the game, could also qualify for being its most clear-cut comic relief thanks to his jokey, petty personality, often acting more like a schoolyard bully than the nihilistic terrorist who wants to speed up the apocalypse that he actually is. One of his quirks is the tendency to describe the events he's laying out with a very "video game-y" tone: he taunts Sam with "game overs", and he even describes their inevitable one-on-one battle as "just a good-ol' fashioned boss fight", which is itself partially played like an arcade-style fighting game, complete with life bars and ridiculous slo-mo impact shots.
  • Deltarune:
    • Queen is an egomaniacal whackjob who uses Leet Speak while leaving CAPS LOCK on and completely foregoing punctuation Just Like This As If She Were Emphasizing Every Word As Its Own Sentence, but she can still prove terrifying when the moment calls for it, even while offering a battery acid pie.
    • Tenna is a lunatic who tries to keep Kris's party trapped in an endless game and is working with the Knight, but he's also a massive ham who often does silly, over-the-top poses and dances, and he speaks with a variety of Bold Inflation where some of his words are gigantic and colorful.
  • Many of the demons in the Disgaea series (except the psychopaths like fake/real Zenon, evil Adell, super evil Mao, etc.) qualify for this trope.
  • Dyztopia: Post-Human RPG: Sho Sharker is a goofy show host who is introduced abruptly cutting to commercial because he accidentally mentioned Prime Minister Morgalia's age. However, he's also a ruthless advocate for Zetacorp and is willing to have dissidents killed on his show, all while cracking jokes at their expense. Even his Villainous Breakdown is humorous due to him declaring himself "uncancellable" while watching his anti-Akira campaign fall apart. In-universe, many viewers find him more obnoxious and gaudy than funny.
  • In EarthBound Beginnings, Hippies will try to attack Ninten with rulers. They'll also try to shout into a bullhorn that Ninten's mother was looking for him.
  • The Elder Scrolls:
  • The player in Evil Genius. Think Dr. Evil, and you have a good idea on what's the preferred playstile for this character.
  • Reaver from Fable II and III also qualifies. He's a hedonistic Depraved Bisexual who achieved immortality through some very unpleasant means and is out purely to serve his own interests. But he's also so incredibly Camp you can't help but like him. And he's voiced by Stephen Fry.
  • Fallout:
  • Final Fantasy:
    • Final Fantasy VI:
      • Kefka is a rare example of a villain who can make you laugh, even when he's gleefully crossing the Moral Event Horizon. It also doesn't help that he's the Final Fantasy equivalent of The Joker. Until he ends the world and becomes the God of Magic.
      • Another example from that game might be the octopus Ultros. Ultros isn't really that threatening, truth be told, but he's a goldmine of hilarious one-liners. Even his cameos in other games are this trope.
    • Final Fantasy XV gives us Ardyn Izunia, a fabulous, scene-stealing villain modeled after Kefka by the developers. Noctis even calls him "Jester" on one occasion.
    • Recurring villain Gilgamesh, a Large Ham prone to hilariously bizarre proclamations mid-battle.
  • It seems Grand Theft Auto has a thing for this, so of course Grand Theft Auto V upped the ante with player character Trevor. Abusive, psychopathic, and hilarious.
    • In Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas, you have Mike Toreno, the paranoid government agent. Disrespecting dead women to a monologue on how all modern conspiracy theories are nowhere near the truth. There's also Ryder, who provides enough humor in almost every cutscene/mission he appears in in spite of his rude attitude.
    • Grand Theft Auto: Vice City gives us Ricardo Diaz, who may be The Napoleon, a violent and unhinged drug lord with serious anger issues, but also manages to be hilarious with his outbursts, mannerisms, and affinity for solving problems with a gun, be it pigeons for leaving droppings on his car or his VCR for eating his favorite "El Burro" movie.
  • Guild Wars: Nightfall:
    • The Lich Palawa Joko once terrorised the entirety of the continent of Elona, whose forces were the greatest threat said continent faced until the Charr invasion many centuries later. Being unable to die or be killed, he had to be sealed away at the location of his defeat, and there he would have remained... if the plot hadn't required that you release him from his imprisonment for several very good reasons. But that's okay, all Joko wants is to reform his undead Army Of Darkness, which you've got to help him with as well. Astoundingly, he fails to be a threat for the remainder of the game, and while you're dealing with the Big Bad he's spending the rest of the time hilariously failing to get any sort of organisation from his mindless minions. What a guy. By the second game, he has gotten his act together, and how.
    • Mad King Thorn is generally loved by players and seen as wacky and amusing. The fact that he and his minions will happily recall the horrors they inflicted on their subjects, such as once having an entire village flayed alive, makes this somewhat inexcusable.
  • King Bohan and Flying Fox from Heavenly Sword. King Bohan is voiced by Andy Serkis and is funny even when being a total bastard. Flying Fox has a very shrill voice and is even hammier than Bohan.
  • Deconstructed in Injustice 2. While he's capable of cracking jokes, it's also shown that The Joker's evil side far exceeds it, given that he's responsible for Superman's Face–Heel Turn by tricking Big Blue into murdering his own family and nuking Metropolis just For the Evulz, and that it's entirely possible for one aspect of this trope to be so horrific to cancel the other out. His attempts at Black Comedy are used to call attention on why tormenting people would be funny. His belief that life is just a "joke" also reveals how insane he is.
  • Hades from Kid Icarus: Uprising. The few times when they get dead serious, however, it's actually pretty terrifying.
  • Several members of Organization XIII from Kingdom Hearts are this, especially Xigbar. Xigbar is there, casually tossing out surfer slang, wearing an eye patch, explaining (badly) what love is to Roxas, and is a lot of fun to watch... until you play Kingdom Hearts: Birth by Sleep and Kingdom Hearts 3D [Dream Drop Distance], in which it's revealed that he caused a lot of the problems in Birth by Sleep and Dream Drop Distance because he willingly let himself become "Half Xehanort" and it's implied that — unlike several other members of the New Organization who were either forced, brainwashed, or a part of the original Xehanort (It Makes Sense in Context) — knew what would happen if Master Xehanort succeeds and went along with it anyway. Demyx is funnier, but he isn't evil enough to completely pull this off.
  • King Dedede from the Kirby series. He is the villian of the first game and spin-offs, yet he is rarely taken seriously. As a silly penguin-like Big Eater with an egostical deposition, he's certainly played less of a threat than Bowser or Ganondorf.
  • In Kishin Douji Zenki: Vajura Fight, Razurou has multiple appearances that are mostly provided for comic relief. In his first appearance, he's blasted away by Shoukouga before he can fight Zenki/Chiaki. His second appearance has him falling out of the train, dizzy, and you can jump on him as many times as you want, especially if you're planning on getting the maximum number of lives. His third appearance has him attempt to fight the heroic duo again only to be knocked away by Tetuhewreki, who survived the falling debris that crushed him. And to top it off, he's even known for having some bombastic lines. Of course, his fourth and final encounter is a good reason why you should Beware the Silly Ones, even if he was just being possessed and mutated by Fushushoku.
  • Knights of the Old Republic:
    • Many of the player character's evil options in the games are hilarious. And then there's a certain over-eager assassin droid.
      "Definition: Love is making a shot to the knees of a target 120 kilometres away using an Aratech sniper rifle with a tri-light scope."
    • HK-47's creator, Darth Revan, programmed him to refer to all organic lifeforms as meatbags because he thought the robotic Psychopathy was hilarious and it annoyed one of his allies when HK called him that.
  • In League of Legends, a game notorious for its already enormous and ever-expanding playable roster, with villains included, running into at least a few of these is to be expected.
  • In The Legend of Zelda: Skyward Sword, Ghirahim manages to be both this and a Knight of Cerebus. His flamboyant tendencies, disturbing threats, and lack of a sense of personal space leave many players unable to decide whether to laugh or to shudder. He stops being funny near the end, though.
  • Loser Reborn: Nya (as in that Nyarlathotep) is a cruel god who erases anyone who points out the world's contradictions and later sends Gla'aki to the real world to start a zombie apocalypse there. She also has her share of sarcastic, fourth-wall breaking lines, especially in the fourth ending.
  • Mass Effect: "Evil" may be pushing it, but playing Commander Shepard as a Renegade can result in some truly hilarious moments and bouts of Insane Troll Logic.
  • The Roborobo/Rubberrobo Gang from Medabots are an organization of total goofballs who dress in full-body rubber costumes with antennae sticking out of the head portion and shades covering their eyes. While their leaders tend to be competent (sometimes), their rank and file are such complete and total nitwits that it can be hard to take them seriously at all. In fact, the first time we see one of their members in the first game in the series, he's just stolen a rare medal (the heart and soul of the series' robotic Mons)... Only to lose it after being clocked in the head with a stray frisbee thrown by the protagonist and subsequently sent fleeing in panic when said protagonist's dog came to fetch it.
  • Dr. Wily, from the Mega Man (Classic) series. He pulls off evil plots like holding a Russian scientist's daughter hostage and spreading a robot virus, yet tends to use silly-looking robots, frequently wiggle his eyebrows, and beg for mercy upon his defeat. Every single time. The guy is a living paradox. The best example of this, is the time he stole the world's strongest robots, while wearing a rather flimsy disguise. This is quite subject to a Cerebus Retcon when you find out that the horrible, horrible robot war that took up most of Mega Man X's story was his fault.
  • The Bonne family in Mega Man Legends, while they're tearing apart buildings, looting, and generally making nuisances of themselves they do it in an utterly hilarious way. Besides the accidents the servebots get into, Tiesel Bonne screaming at the servebots to close the hatch on his dangerous Humongous Mecha or even just the way Tronne Bonne gets chased up a lamppost by a small dog. It's perfectly summed up by one of the citizens on Saul Kada island which the Bonnes have taken over.
    Citizen: I don't know whether to laugh at the bonnes or run away from them!
  • Metal Gear Rising: Revengeance has Sundowner, the head of the Desperado PMC. He's certainly a nasty piece of war-profiteering work and has a long list of war crimes, but he's so absolutely gleeful about War for Fun and Profit that it turns into Refuge in Audacity and is easily one of the biggest hams in an entire game of ham, right next to Senator Armstrong.
  • Metal Wolf Chaos has the evil Vice President Richard Hawk, who is hilarious when he melodramatically calls out the protagonist's name, makes bad similes, pronounces "darjeeling tea", and speaks with a smug and sarcastic tone. Even his worst act in the game is portrayed as Black Comedy, where he attempts to nuke America with a missile that's branded "Merry Christmas."
  • Murray, the demonic skele- errrr, the Mighty Demonic Skull from the Monkey Island series. In this case, much of his laughableness derives from how over-the-top evil and hammy he acts despite being a disembodied skull incapable of harming anyone except through (very, very ineffectual) verbal abuse.
  • Kano in Mortal Kombat 11 is a Card-Carrying Villain, but compared to the other villains, he acts incredibly nonchalant and is hilariously crude. He seems to take delight in being told how evil he is and most of his intros have him making small talk or even attempting to flirt with other fighters. Though he's still a ruthless and dangerous criminal, his false charm makes him much more laughable then the other villains, who are often The Comically Serious/Knight of Cerebus.
  • Neofeud:
    • Warren Clington-Busch's hedonistic use for his wealth is often played for laughs and he abuses his power in darkly humorous ways, such as when he secretly adds alcohol containing virgin blood into the Fulcrum's secret drink menu. During his speech at the G8 Summit, he makes several ridiculous humblebrags about his "meager" wealth that make it hard to keep a straight face. However, he's still a cruel Multiversal Conqueror who is largely responsible for enforcing wealth inequality and discrimination against the lower class and non-humans.
    • Walker Coch-Jobbs is as fond of wisecracks as his rival Warren and expresses his enthusiasm for bloodshed through movie references. While preparing to attack Shuffler's Stratoplex office, he hums an American military tune while laughing evilly.
  • Among the villainous characters in Overwatch, Jamison "Junkrat" Fawks holds the title. A Mad Bomber and international criminal, Junkrat is always laughing and comes off as very jovial. Many of his in-game emotes are comedic (dancing on his RIP Tire, accidentally giving himself a Groin Attack, etc.) but doesn't distract from the fact that he's murdered, stolen and caused perhaps billions of dollars worth of property damage via arson.
  • Pathfinder: Kingmaker: Per the setting, the smaller Evil monsters, mainly mites, kobolds, and goblins, are generally Played for Laughs: tribes of small, idiosyncratic critters that talk in You No Take Candle and think they're a lot tougher than they actually are.
    • There's a war between tribes of kobolds and mites in the first chapter in which you can intervene. The kobolds in particular are dupes of the Starter Villain Tartuccio, and if you treat them with mercy you gain the ability to construct a special "Kobold Quarter" building in any Town or City you own, which offers some nice boosts to your barony's Espionage stat.
    • There's an entire subplot in the "Season of Bloom" chapter involving the local goblin tribes. They think the plague of magical parasites turning humanoids into monsters is a sign from Lamashtu and keep trying to domesticate the monsters—usually getting eaten for their troubles. One of them, Nok-Nok, can actually join your party and be a pretty effective Rogue, and you can get an achievement for partying with a tribe in a storybook event. At the same time, they are kidnapping villagers and trying to force-feed the monster seeds to them, and unlike with the kobolds they got the idea in their heads all on their own.
  • Most of the minor villains from the Pokémon Mystery Dungeon series. However, they are often phased out when the not-so-hilarious Big Bad shows up.
  • GLaDOS from Portal along with both Wheatley and Cave Johnson in the sequel. All three are completely lacking in any sort of ethics, whether business or moral, but certainly quick with a quip and are hilariously crazy.
  • Ratchet & Clank: Up Your Arsenal introduces us to Dr. Nefarious, who outright became a Breakout Villain because of this trope.
  • Lucas Baker from Resident Evil 7: Biohazard is a sociopathic Jigsaw-style Serial Killer... with a cheerful, chatty, and showmanly Faux Affably Evil streak and tendency to tease and lethally "prank" his victims as they navigate his trap-filled stomping grounds and deadly rigged games in a manner that comes off as equal parts horror bastardry and pitch-dark Black Comedy. He's as much the comic relief character as a major villain, outside of the Not a Hero DLC chapter, in which he's the Big Bad of the scenario and has dropped most of the antics in a fit of pique after being outwitted in the main game.
  • Dokurubo from Sakura Wars: So Long, My Love is a perfect example of this. When the New York Combat Revue challenge him the second time after comforting Rikaritta Aries, he responds to their appearance with "You guys!". But then, he ask who they are, much to the frustration of the team. Sagitta calls him out for stupidity as Rikaritta just announced who they are. In the boss battle, Dokurobu will also try to trick the team into doing a Victory Pose. Despite being dumbfounded at first, Shinjiro see though it and insults him for it. When Shinjiro also insulted Dokurobu's armour, he get angry and gives it a different name: "The Star Division is Stupid!" armour.
  • Kaos, the Big Bad of Skylanders. He's got the personality and voice of Invader Zim, Large Ham and all. Though it should be noted he's actually far more competent than his personality would imply. Doesn't make him any less fun to watch, however.
    Kaos: My head is awesome, I tell you! Fear it! Fear my GIANT FLOATING HEAD!
  • Sonic the Hedgehog has Dr. Ivo "Eggman" Robotnik. While it varies Depending on the Writer, he is generally shown to be rather buffoonish and quite immature, often throwing comically-exaggerated tantrums when things aren't working out his way. His classic counterpart is more consistently depicted as laughable, with much more emphasis on his showmanship (building extravagant casinos and carnivals) and lack of competence (with some of his boss fights has him using rather questionable tactic to counter the heroes alongside Sonic CD showing his robots broken down and malfunctioning in the bad futures); at least in Generations, though, even he is disturbed by his modern counterpart's crazed behavior. His movie incarnation takes it to new levels, being played by Jim Carrey and all, and every time he's on screen he's bound to say or do something hilarious.
  • Super Mario Bros.:
    • From Bowser's kidnapping of the princess turning out to be lovesickness, Wart being the tyrant of a dream world while critically weak to vegetables (he hates the taste), to even the names of many of the stage bosses (King Kaliente's Spicy Return!). And some characters who are antagonists in an RPG or spinoff (*Chunks Awaaaay!*) (I HAVE FURY!).
    • Special mention also goes to Dimentio from Super Paper Mario, who often has rather quirky behaviors that count as somewhat comical, and yet commits genuinely horrific actions while cracking jokes.
    • However, Bowser is portrayed in a more serious manner in the main series platform games. Especially Super Mario 64 and Super Mario Galaxy. He's a more serious threat in terms of malice in said games, but is still a comical ham of the highest order personality wise, so fits this trope to a tee.
      Bowser: I'm HUUUUUUUUGE!!!!
    • Bowser in Mario Party. Especially in Mario Party 7, where he'll take a picture of the characters and make you pay for it.
  • The dark sided Sith Inquisitor from Star Wars: The Old Republic is quite a comedian. They seem to get the most opportunities to either crack jokes or outright mock their enemies (especially the Jedi) in the funniest way possible. This extends to photo-bombing victory speeches on the Holonet, wagging fingers at Jedi Knights for losing their cool during a battle, and even impersonating Republic officers.
    Inquisitor: Master Ramos needs to brush up on his Jedi teachings. ♥
  • Hasta in Tales of Innocence, though more so in the Vita remake. His strange speech pattern and laid-back manner make it hard to take him seriously, even after he murders some innocents for the sake of getting the party's attention and stabs Luca after getting him to let his guard down.
  • Every evil deed done by the Mercs in Team Fortress 2 counts. They're the Ragtag Bunch of Misfits of hired killers.
  • Soren van Wyk and Colonel Hanse Castillo from Terra Invicta are two of the most ruthless faction leaders in the game, but they also get some of the funniest lines from their personalities:
    • Soren is a Corrupt Corporate Executive leading a faction whose response to an Alien Invasion is "how can we use this to profit and accumulate control over Earth?" He brags that he could "set a puppy on fire on live TV" and get away with it, and even any seeming "good" acts he does are pure Pragmatic Villainy. He's also upfront about what he wants in life, and his callous treatment of employees is Played for Laughs.
      "Unless you too want to be showered in liquid lead, make damn sure the coolant circuit doesn't break again. Oh, and see to it that these... statues of your predecessors are removed."
    • Colonel Hanse Castillo is a fascist war criminal whose only redeeming aspect is that he's turned his ruthless methods against the invading aliens. His preferred method of interrogating aliens is Cold-Blooded Torture, and even then, he'd much rather annihilate them with More Dakka and only bothers to bring back anything more than a pile of meaty chunks when his scientists insist they need something to work with. He also has amiable, down-to-earth quotes emphasizing his Combat Pragmatist nature.
  • General Akhboob from Total Carnage. His threats are over-the-top, he outright tells the player they suck at the game, and he is so cartoonishly evil he turns into a giant Hitler head for part of his boss fight. But beware, his threats are not empty and he is also a Marathon Boss.
  • View from Below: Bell is a snarky Jerkass thief who comes off as a comic relief character compared to the more menacing Crimson Skull cult. He introduces himself by stealing Ash's lighter and he has the audacity to set up a stall to try to sell it back to the latter for the money cap. He's also incredibly narcissistic, as shown when he locks Ash in a room where the only way out is to solve a tile puzzle in his image.
  • Uncle Jack of We Happy Few is just meant to be a Non-Ironic Clown, but his tendency towards Black Comedy (especially jokes involving murdering Downers) means that he comes across more as this.
  • Sho Minamimoto from The World Ends with You, if only for how bizarre he is. Even when he's planning genocide and planning to Kill the God, he's somehow hilarious. A language or math certainly helps in that.
  • World of Warcraft has Fandral Staghelm. While many bosses have some funny lines (often puns or pop culture references) Staghelm is such a Large Ham that it's nearly impossible to take him seriously. When you fight him, you've interrupted him at the end of a ritual which will grant him a very powerful firey form. He turns into a flaming cat, and does indeed proceed to almost murderize your raid: but his attacks have inherently silly names (because they are just standard druid abilities with the word "fire" added to the front), and he keeps yelling out the names as he casts. The firey cat form also looks kind of stupid (because of how low-rez the cat models are). He's a well-intentioned extremist with a bit of a Messiah Complex trying to get back the immortality for the Night Elves. But by the time the players go to kill him, they know he's been screwed over by Ragnaros the Firelord already: except he doesn't seem to realize that. Although very powerful, Staghelm is generally regarded as a joke by the players.

    Visual Novels 
  • Ace Attorney is a series known for having eccentric and hilarious characters. Given that it revolves around murder cases, the zaniness also extends to most of the culprits, especially for the ones who either maintain or exaggerate their quirks after being exposed. A good example is the phantom, a sociopathic master-of-disguise who is capable of doing darkly amusing impressions of other characters, to the point of imitating Phoenix in order to screw with the latter.
  • In Danganronpa, we have Monokuma, the self-proclaimed headmaster of the Despair Academy. His funny antics and quirks never quite manage to make up for the way he gleefully sets up the murders, watches everyone with cameras and his ability to violently self-destruct. His controller/true identity, Junko Enoshima, is an Ax-Crazy psychopath who experiences mood swings so violently that they might as well be different personalities. Her shifting her behaviour from a high and mighty Evil Overlord, to a Kawaiiko complete with Art Shift might seem amusing, if she didn't talk about how she randomly killed her sister out of boredom and her part in causing the collapse of human society at the same time.
  • Being a Monster Clown, this defines the title character of Gore Screaming Show. He will commit all kinds of atrocities while cracking all manner of jokes and sarcastic quips while engaging in pitch black comedy skits mixed in with his already pun laden dialogue. He is eventually revealed to be an embodiment of the series Arc Words "I wanna be happy", he is her desire for happiness twisted with her desire for revenge on those that wronged her. He exists solely to, in his own warped way, make the Cute Ghost Girl Yuka happy again. And in the true route she finally lets go of her bitterness and Gore cracks one final joke that is genuinly heartfelt before disappearing, his purpose fulfilled.

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    Western Animation 
  • Bizarro is a creature with all the powers of the Man of Steel, and an intellect that insults egg plants by association. To be fair, he may actually be quite competent, especially in the DC Animated Universe where he is the only one to notice that something is wrong with Lex Luthor (namely that Lex and Flash are body swapped), but because he expresses himself in opposite action every time he speaks, no one gives him the time of day.
  • The Joker:
  • DC Animated Universe: Lex Luthor can fit this trope to the proverbial 'T', thanks to clever writing and Clancy Brown's brilliant voice acting.
    Luthor: Goodbye, Grodd. It could have gone the other way.
    Grodd: It really could have, couldn't it?
    Luthor: No, but why speak ill of the dead?
    [cue airlocking]
  • Pete from the Classic Disney Shorts and Goof Troop, while his characterization is Depending on the Writer, is usually a comedic villain.
  • Adventures of the Gummi Bears: Duke Igthorn is also characterized as comically evil. His not-so-harmless moments notwithstanding, he's as goofy as any hammy Disney villain, and he often suffers humiliating defeats at the Gummi Bears' hands.
  • Adventures of Sonic the Hedgehog:
  • Roger Smith from American Dad!. He's the Token Evil Teammate of the Smith family by a wide margin and is a Psychopathic Manchild par excellance, but is also one of the funniest characters out of the whole series.
  • Evil Emperor Zurg, sworn enemy of the Galactic Alliance from Buzz Lightyear of Star Command is a complete goofball whose constant antics render him the plucky comic relief but he’s also a mad scientist who subjects the LGMs to Cold-Blooded Torture, enslaved entire planets, engages in mind control and has at least once attempted to obliterating two entire planets and is someone whose schemes always Borden on success. He lives and breathes this trope.
  • Beast Machines:
    • Jetstorm is Ax-Crazy even by Transformers standards but his Large Ham personality and horrible sense of humour make him one of the most enjoyable villains in the entire franchise.
    "This is Captain Jetstorm speaking. Please feel free to run about the tarmac and flee for you miserable little lives."
  • Bob's Burgers has Louise Belcher, who takes Comedic Sociopathy to its logical extreme by actually being a sociopath. She's described on The Other Wiki as being "manipulative and aggressive...more than willing to exploit people", not exactly terms usually used to describe a protagonist. Her actions aren't always even harmless to the other protagonists of the show, and she very seldom expresses anything approaching remorse, although ultimately she is shown to love her family. However, that doesn't keep her from being absolutely hilarious.
  • As a black comedy show, The Boondocks has more than its fair share of funny villains:
  • Mother Brain from Captain N: The Game Master. Her over-the-top personality and her voice make her impossible to take seriously.
  • Clone High: Principal Cinnamon J. Scudworth is a hammy Mad Scientist who provides a lot of humor because of his eccentric antics and being very loud and expressive when he gets peeved off.
  • The Red Guy from Cow and Chicken may be Satan by another name, but his flamboyant personality, psychotic tendencies, and Large Ham also make him one of the show's funniest characters.
  • Dan in Dan Vs. is a criminal lunatic obsessed with revenge, but it's very amusing watching his flimsy attempts to justify his every immoral act, and his plans tend to derail hilariously.
  • All the villains in Darkwing Duck, with the possible exception of Knight of Cerebus Taurus Bulba. Negaduck is a good example of a villain who pulls off the neat trick of being both hilarious and dangerous at the same time.
    Negaduck: "When I throw... THE SWITCH!!!!!"
    • Heck, even Bulba has his moments:
      Darkwing (taken by surprise after already doing his dramatic intro): Er... I am the terror that flaps in the night. I am... the sur-surprise in your... cereal box...
      Bulba: Yes, yes, I know. I heard.
    • The villains in the Duck shows in general tend to be like this; Flintheart Glomgold, Magica de Spell, and the Beagle Boys in DuckTales (1987) for example, plus Count Duckula villains Dr. Von Goosewing and The Egg.
  • Dave the Barbarian's Dark Lord Chuckles, The Silly Piggy. It's in the name. For bonus points, this is how he actually announces himself.
  • The Fairly OddParents!:
    • Timmy Turner's cruel babysitter Vicky frequently comes off as funny because she is portrayed as cartoonishly evil, showing absolutely no restraint when gloating to Timmy how much she intends to make him suffer.
    • Timmy's teacher Mr. Crocker provides a lot of the show's humor because of his deranged obsession with hunting fairies and proving they exist, helped immensely by his habit of going into wild seizures while yelling "fairy godparents!"
    • Dark Laser is a Darth Vader Expy who frequently attempts to obliterate the Earth, but is kept from being too scary because of the hilarious detail that his best friend is a toy dog named Flipsy.
  • Family Guy:
    • Stewie Griffin, starting with the very fact that he's a one-year-old baby who is an evil mastermind.
    • Herbert the Pervert, an elderly paedophile who is too old and feeble to be an actual threat to anyone. Stewie puts it best in "Spies Reminiscent of Us":
      Stewie: Well, there's a paedophile up the street that nobody seems to be doing anything about, but it's mainly because he's so funny.
  • Prime Evil, from Filmation's Ghostbusters, was absolutely hilarious, thanks to a) the writing and b) Alan Oppenheimer's Large Ham acting.
  • Like everything else in Freakazoid!, the villains were hilarious.
  • Futurama:
    • Bender. Only Futurama could take a sleazy, amoral, egotistical, and vice-ridden criminal robot and make him one of the funniest characters in Western Animation.
    • Zapp Brannigan is more of the Nominal Hero variety as he's technically on the side of good. However, he's also a smug, manipulative, crude, incompetent, deluded and self-absorbed jackass who's constantly hogging the glory and giving Kif a hard time. Yet when an episode makes him the focal point, you just know it'll make for some of the most hysterical moments in the show.
    • Mom may be a Corrupt Corporate Executive and Abusive Parent With Good Publicity, but her foul temper and even fouler mouth has lent itself to a great deal of comedy gold.
    • Richard Nixon's Head. He may exist largely to be a gigantic Take That! to the real Nixon, but damn if he isn't a hilariously over-the-top one. "AROOOO!"
    • Roberto is essentially a robotic criminal who is prone to gibbering like a maniac and making violent threats toward people for the most trivial of offenses, which makes him yet another character on the show who's both evil and humorous.
  • Generator Rex: Recurring villain Gatlock is completely out of his gourd and frequently says something extremely ludicrous whenever he appears.
  • Gravity Falls:
    • Bill Cipher is a powerful (and weirdly adorable) "dream demon" who combines bone-chilling sociopathy with a jovial, irreverent demeanor and a twisted sense of humor.
      Bill: Deer teeth, for you kid! A ha ha ha!
      Gideon: AAAH! You're insane!
      Bill: Sure I am, what's your point?
    • Gideon himself often qualifies. Screaming "I CAN BUY AND SELL YOU, OLD MAN!" at his own father is a bit dark, for example, but the sheer hamminess of the line—and the fact that it's a response to being told to clean his room—makes it hard not to laugh.
  • Skeletor from Masters of the Universe became this in He-Man and the Masters of the Universe (1983) —in the original minicomics he was a fairly serious villain, but since censors were constantly breathing down Filmation's neck about what they perceived to be a horribly violent cartoon about a sword-swinging barbarian, they decided to make the scary man with a Skull for a Head less scary by playing him for laughs. Though still an evil schemer, the cartoon Skeletor was turned into a Laughing Mad Deadpan Snarker who kept cracking one-liners in which he insulted the world in general and lamented how he was Surrounded by Idiots, with a ridiculous, non-menacing voice to boot. The 2002 remake of the show turned him a little more menacing and threatening, but kept his sarcasms and general tendency to get all the best lines in the show.
  • The titular protagonist of Invader Zim. Or just the Irkens in general, really. Who knew planet-scale genocide could be such a riot?
  • Doc Seismic in Invincible (2021), an over-the-top Large Ham Mad Scientist who in his first appearance is shouting Straw Feminist talking points and cheesy one-liners. Even his abilities are Played for Laughs, as he lacks the Required Secondary Powers to use his earthquake gauntlets without giving himself brain damage and he's a Dance Battler despite being a short, portly old man.
  • Jimmy Two-Shoes:
    • Heloise is an Ax-Crazy Enfant Terrible known for her yandere attraction to Jimmy, her dangerous and immoral inventions and experiments, and her love of injury, torture, and destruction. As you might guess, she's quite hilarious.
    • Lucius is a ruthless, sadistic, narcissistic, megalomaniacal, and tyrannical expy of Satan whose favourite thing is making everyone as miserable as possible. He's also a bumbling, moronic, and ineffectual Large Ham who is constantly injured, humiliated, and given the short end of the stick in the show. As a result, many fans find him hilarious.
  • Kaeloo:
  • Most of the villains in Kim Possible are laughable, especially Dr. Drakken (with Shego's running commentary serving to highlight his laughability). Even the Scary Dogmatic Aliens, who can't grasp English idioms and have a goddamn Off-button in their ship (except when they threaten to kill Kim and mount her in front of Ron).
  • The Mask: Animated Series: In "Shrink Rap", Dr. Neuman is given the mask by Stanley, who wants to get rid of it, and agrees to keep it. However, while inside his house, he sees that the mask glows, so he gets curious and inspects it closely, which causes it to get attached to his face, turning him into a psychotic and insane madman who believes that there is a disorder called "Ipkissa Maskosis" and goes out to cure the world from it. The way he does it is by putting people (and a gorilla) in wedgie straitjackets with built-in diapers. To get around, he uses a child bicycle, a flying book, then finally a bouncy stick. While chasing Stanley, Masked Dr. Neuman decides to put him in a bath partly to put him off guard but mostly because he decides to mess around with Stanley, which shows Masked Dr. Neuman to have a sense of humor like Stanley as the Mask and the other benevolent mask personas, also showing that Masked Dr Neuman is terrifying but can be funny at times with his insanity and his wackiness.
  • OK K.O.! Let's Be Heroes has this with Lord Boxman and his robots Darrel, Shannon, and Raymond. Boxman has a comically petty hatred of Lakewood Plaza Turbo and tends to act like an ineffectual bully, while his robots often behave childishly and have a misfortune of constantly being beaten effortlessly by the heroes in spite of their best efforts.
  • Phineas and Ferb has Dr. Heinz Doofenshmirtz. Yes, he wants to take over the entire Tri-State area, and has created everything from Killer Robots and mind-control helmets... but he's so bad at it, it's hilarious! Compared to his alternate universe self, Doof-2 from Phineas and Ferb The Movie: Across the 2nd Dimension, he's a pretty decent guy. Doof-2 was willing to kill complete innocents and his alternate-self, just for the sake of it. Though he still fills this trope by, among other things, announcing their doom with a sock-puppet. The other members of L.O.V.E.M.U.F.F.I.N count as well. Each spends their days building devices with distinctive suffixes (inator, izer, ator, ect.) and having their plans foiled by an animal agent.
  • Nearly every villain on The Powerpuff Girls (1998) is this except for Femme Fatale, Dick Hardly, and the Gnome. Mostly Mojo Jojo and to a slight lesser extent HIM.
  • Samurai Jack:
  • The Simpsons:
  • South Park:
    • Eric Cartman. An individual whose antics can sometimes backfire and lead to his humiliation, but he shows that he's capable of this, for example being able to team up with Cthulhu.
    • Saddam Hussein as well, particularly in the movie.
  • Empress Geela from SpacePOP is a cruel dictator who took over the princesses' planets and kidnapped their parents, but she spends most of her time on vapid, self-promoting TV shows and reveling in her own evilness.
  • In The Spectacular Spider-Man the Green Goblin doesn't get annoyed by the Web-Head's quipping and mocking and still has the original version's wacky personality, manipulative planning, and amazing acrobatism. He is shown to crack sadistic jokes.
  • SpongeBob SquarePants: Given the show’s extremely comedic nature, pretty much EVERY villain in the series definitely fits this trope to an absolute tee.
    • Sheldon Plankton, the Big Bad of the show and the Arch-Enemy to both SpongeBob and Mr. Krabs, is a Diabolical Mastermind who is constantly plotting to steal the Krabby Patty secret formula, but he's usually ineffective and constantly set back by his own arrogance, lack of foresight and Genre Blind nature. Doesn't stop him from being one of the funniest characters in the show, especially in the earlier seasons.
    • The adversaries of Mermaid Man and Barnacle Boy all qualify, though Man Ray and the Dirty Bubble are the standout examples. Man Ray in particular is a Large Ham to incalculable levels who can be almost childishly evil in his antics, while the Dirty Bubble has some odd quirks (like making his enemies eat dirt) or likes to randomly have a lovely chat about the good old days just after a defeat. They even have a Cool Car with a license plate that reads "Mean 2 U".
  • Peridot in Steven Universe was callous to the extreme, even towards members of her own species, and talked about nightmarishly cruel experiments in Gem fusion like she's recording the heights of soybeans, but at the same time her dorkiness, constant frustration, ridiculous facial expressions, and one particular scene where she soared away on a helicopter made from her own techno-fingers while giggling like a loon made her a source of constant amusement. She got even funnier following her Heel–Face Turn.
  • TaleSpin:
    • Don Carnage is eccentric and flamboyant, has a funny accent and incompetent minions, but is still a ruthless pirate who thinks nothing of dropping a child twenty thousand feet to his death or setting a town on fire with a Lightning Gun.
    • Colonel Ivanod Spigot is too; among other things suffers from Napoleonic complex and a speech impediment, and is always worry that is going to be executed. Though that's justified as he works for a totalitarian government.
  • Tangled: The Series shows us Andrew, a guy so pretty Even the Guys Want Him who is from a separatist faction of the Kingdom of Corona called Saporia, who leads a band of Saporians who could be described as a New Age thugs. His real Embarrassing First Name is Hubert, and any mention that they could conquer Corona is meet with derisive laughter... until they do. He is also the first villain who tried to impale In the Back Cassandra, who let Varian, a teenage boy, drop to his death as punishment for betraying the Saporian cause, and who tried to reduce the whole Kingdom to ashes with all the population.
  • Bebop and Rocksteady from the 1980s Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles cartoon provide a lot of comedy due to being a Bumbling Henchmen Duo who are extremely stupid and prone to messing up Shredder and Krang's plans with their idiocy.
  • Teen Titans (2003) has quite a lot of humorous villains.
    • Gizmo is a brat who tends to taunt the heroes immaturely and fly into comical fits of rage when things go bad for him.
    • Mad Mod makes use of bizarre illusions in his schemes and happens to be an outlandishly over-the-top British stereotype.
    • The Amazing Mumbo is a magician-themed villain prone to silly antics, such as attempting to saw Starfire in half while stating "It's only fair to warn you: I have no idea what I'm doing".
    • Control Freak is essentially an overweight geek who desires to be seen by the Titans as a serious threat while oblivious of exactly how many foes the Titans have faced who are way more formidable and menacing than he is.
    • Killer Moth's daughter Kitten is basically a Bratty Teenage Daughter whose heinous scheme is to make Robin take her to the prom just to make her boyfriend Fang jealous.
  • Total Drama Pahkitew Island plays this up with ineffectual self-declared supervillain Max. He attempts to be evil and can actually produce things like a helmet that turns animals evil, but his lack of common sense and For the Evulz attitude makes him completely comical.
    • For some viewers, series host Chris McLean is this. His rampant ego, shameless immorality, and general sleaziness combined with his casual attitude and chill Surfer Dude demeanour makes him one of the most beloved and most hateable characters on the show. He's been compared with the likes of Eric Cartman from South Park and Bill Cipher from Gravity Falls.
  • Transformers: Animated:
    • Blitzwing by himself is funny, particularly when his "random" personality is in control ("Ooh, I wanna see him turn into a fire truck, can I, can I, can I?"), but him and Lugnut sniping at each other is hilarious. Extra points for being a pretty competent and evil villain - one notable appearance includes tearing off Ratchet's hand (and making a reference to eating it some episodes later. Hilariously.)
    • Other villains have their moments, too, some more than others. Swindle, for example, is an Arms Dealer who acts like nothing so much as an overly-excited infomercial host. (In fact, his mannerisms were based partly on Ron Popeil.) And, because this show is so Merchandise-Driven, you can have your own little plastic Swindle for just $10.99! But Wait, There's More!!
  • Transformers: Prime Knock Out who has the most hilarious lines in the show, and is so vain about his appearance that he borders on being a parodic metrosexual.
  • Simon from Trollz is a 3000-year-old gremlin who destroyed Trollzopolis once and wields powerful magic, but he looks and acts like a 9-year-old boy and has no aptitude for modern technology. He's also quite proud of being evil, as is his sidekick Snarf.
  • T.U.F.F. Puppy has several humorous villains.
    • The main villain Verminious Snaptrap is a Psychopathic Manchild whose schemes are often ridiculously childish, frequently has to be reminded by his henchman Ollie of his more serious plots and is prone to abusing his brother-in-law Larry in all sorts of comical and petty ways.
    • The Chameleon often comes off as silly due to his disguises prioritizing looking like the person he is impersonating and rarely making an effort to copy the voice, instead feeling that randomly spouting out phrases that are even remotely related to his disguise will suffice. He also has great difficulty finding glasses that can fit his eyes.
    • Bird Brain is an Evil Genius who is always frustrated by his henchmen misunderstanding his exclamations (not helped by several of them having names that are either homonyms of common exclamations, like Holey Cow, or are all too easy to interpret as a command to do a specific action, like Duck!).
    • F.L.O.P.P. is a band of Harmless Villains who are more concerned with harmless pranks than actually being threatening, though they sometimes get their hands on one of Snaptrap's devices and formulate effective plans to use the contraption to cause trouble for Petropolis.
  • Essentially all the villains from The Venture Bros. have something hilarious about them, but The Monarch stands out due to regarding Dr. Venture as his Sitcom Arch-Nemesis and the humorous irony of theming himself after a flying insect when he's consistently shown to be not that knowledgeable in entomology.
  • Many villains from Wander over Yonder:
    • Despite trying to act serious and tough, Lord Hater is pretty comical at times. While he is an Ineffectual Sympathetic Villain in his attempts at defeating Wander, most planets are terrified of him.
    • Lord Hater's villainous rival, Emperor Awesome, is an Agent Peacock shark-man who lives to party and who will flirt with anything vaguely female, from Wander's partner/steed Sylvia to a possessed sandwich.
    • Dr. Screwball Jones from "The Boy Wander" is a goofy-looking super-villain devoted to making people laugh, whether they like it or not.
  • Xiaolin Showdown: Jack Spicer is the least threatening of the main villains and he's mainly used as a comic relief.
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Batman Beyond Joker

The Jokerz regroup at Jolly Jacks, where Chucko tells his boss that Batman showed up to stop whatever they were stealing and had to flee with the console's memory board, which he slides over. When Chucko tries to tell the Jokerz Boss that it's not much, the latter berates him saying it's nothing and criticizes them for being losers and a disgrace to the Joker name. When Bonk calls him out, the Boss fires a flag from his Bang Flag Gun and says he was just kidding before shooting it into him and reveals himself to be the Joker, Batman's greatest arch enemy and tells the Jokerz that Gotham has changed ever since he was dead, both in setting and having a new Batman, but now he's back and ready to terrorize the town once more. This scene establishes what we already know about the Joker, while the new Batman has a fight with his mentor's greatest arch enemy on the horizon.

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