— Dmitri Noumenon, An form of, where a character feels the need to do evil things even at times such actions are clearly not in their best interests, sometimes to the point where it goes against basic self-preservation. Such characters will,,,,,,,,,,,,, and generally be simply. This, along with, is also often one of the reasons the forces of evil never manage to destroy the forces of good: it's not particularly evil to, or, and so forth. Compare with,,, and. Contrast with, when a villain only does evil things for practical reasons and refrains from doing them when they would be counter-productive. Also compare.

If an antagonist momentarily becomes Stupid Evil, they've caught a. See also, where a villain sabotages their own scheme by doing evil when they could've won by playing fair. If a character becomes aware of this trope and switches sides, see. For this trope's, see. Not to be confused with.

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• The Devil in the tends to do this a lot, but Mephisto is one of the worst. Ceramah Matius Mp3 more. He tends to be both a and to anyone he makes deals with, fulfilling the letter of a deal but then screwing the dealer in the process; this frequently costs him the soul he'd otherwise be able to easily get. Probably the example that most backfires for him is when he made a deal with to save his adoptive father from an unspecified disease, only to get said father killed anyway.. • The vast majority of villains between 1930 and 1980 qualify, especially the ones made during. The Comics Code practically mandated this; among other things, they weren't allowed to show criminals or having any kind of degrees outside of, so virtually all criminal plots were insane sci-fi plots,, or both.

• Superboy-Prime also goes from to this, as he's a psychotic teenager with the to end them all, though with a very strong. That notwithstanding, he flies off the handle at the slightest provocation and responds by destroying everything in sight and killing anyone who looks at him funny. Everything in sight, by the way, includes entire planets and a future version of himself, though the latter wasn't bright enough to know that provoking and ordering your younger self (a younger self that he had to have known was extremely unstable and prone to responding with violence to any and all slights) would have consequences. • had the world as his oyster during, with him in charge of the US security, the Avengers replaced with a team of villains loyal to him, and all the regular heroes incapacitated or wanted fugitives.

But he just had to defy the President and go rogue and attack Asgard for some reason, losing everything and getting the good guys back in power in one day. You know a plan is bad when tells you that you're out of your fucking mind. • The fact that the of tricked him into doing it explains but does not excuse his behavior.

• This is Norman's entire M.O. While he can be when he is at his best, he falls back into this. Gta 5 Weapons Cheat Xbox One. Throughout Dark Reign, everyone, to, continues to hang a lampshade on the fact that he's a ticking timebomb who will implode and cause his own downfall.

• The Monitors in, whose plan makes no sense, accomplishes jack shit other than pissing off a bunch of other villains, and involves grandstanding to cover for even though there's no one for them to grandstand for. Then again, this is • of the. Psimon: Shimmer, please explain to your brother that it's a bad idea to nuke the United States. Where we are. •, while certainly capable of formulating and carrying out fairly complex schemes (and he sometimes does), tends to waste far too much of his time trying to go further and further by way of being a horrifically sadistic and cruel bully for no real good reason other than because he thinks it's funny or amusing, or just because he feels like being a dick. It's the cause of his many, many moments, the last one of which more or less put him away for good. •, while generally intelligent (and much smarter than both and ), occasionally falls into this trope: a lot of his plans backfire precisely because he made idiotic mistakes, or couldn't resist the temptation to at the wrong time.