This means that realistically, even if someone is Chaotic Evil, they still can and likely do have more logical motivations than For The Evulz. Please note, Chaotic Evil is not the same thing it's a likely alignment for someone with this as their motivation, but Chaotic Evil encompasses anyone else who is clearly more evil than good and more chaotic than not. Other villainous personality types which dabble with For the Evulz include the Generic Doomsday Villain, the Psycho for Hire (who is very likely to be Ax Crazy), the Nietzsche Wannabe, The Sociopath and the Chaotic Evil. In many cases, they will outright pride themselves in evil, and think that Good Is Boring and dumb.Ī villain whose defining characteristic is this motiveless malignity is almost without fail a Complete Monster, with the Complete Monster being defined by, well, being completely monstrous - needing no justifications for evil acts and having no humanising or sympathetic elements (e.g., good intent or self-doubt) whatsoever. Generally speaking, and eschewing better and more specific adjectives, the more evil something is the more amusement they derive from it. The evil of an act is all the motivation they need for doing it and their resultant amusement is (as with It Amused Me) to them a justification in itself. To them, evil is not a bad means to a good end or even a bad means to an evil end to them, evil is an end in itself. It's not that they don't know or don't care about the morality of their actions - they know and appreciate the difference between good and evil - so much as they enjoy the evil of it all. Unlike the amoral motivation we call It Amused Me, which may lead to evil in the pursuit of attachment-free amusement, someone whose motivation is For the Evulz acts evilly because they enjoy it. Some villains, on the other hand, cannot be reasoned with because there is nothing reasonable about their reasons for acting. If a villain's motivations can just be understood, they can be reasoned with - sometimes. Ambition, greed, benevolent intentions, fear, love, hatred, revenge, a troubled childhood, the desire for utopia and other warped "ideals" can all drive people to evil in ways that you and I understand and may be personally familiar with. Most villains have logical motivations for (morally) reprehensible actions and intentions. PAGES WILL BE DELETED OTHERWISE IF THEY ARE MISSING BASIC MARKUP. DON'T MAKE PAGES MANUALLY UNLESS A TEMPLATE IS BROKEN, AND REPORT IT THAT IS THE CASE. THIS SHOULD BE WORKING NOW, REPORT ANY ISSUES TO Janna2000, SelfCloak or RRabbit42. The Trope workshop specific templates can then be removed and it will be regarded as a regular trope page after being moved to the Main namespace.