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[batyatoon]

O my f-list, I turn to you for aid! ...In this case, for aid in collection of trivia, that skill at which so many of you excel.

I am trying to compile a list of fictional characters who self-identify as evil. (Ideally with a note as to whether said self-identification is ironic or not -- though this is, of course, subject to interpretation.) Said self-identification can happen at any point in the character's arc, but must be present self-identification; "I am evil," rather than "I was evil."

Starting with this guy! *points at new icon*

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[madfilkentist]

If we allow comic examples, there's no lack. For instance, in my own The Filkado, there's Dr. McKoko, the Lord High Evil Genius; but "evil" is more a job description than anything else.

In semi-serious literature, there are a few "evil magicians" in Piers Anthony's Xanth novels. I don't recall if Trent (in A Spell for Chameleon) ever referred to himself as evil (and he really wasn't), but I'm pretty sure that Yang, the evil phase of Yin-Yang in Crewel Lye, did (and was).

[batyatoon]

While I'm not specifically disallowing comic examples, I'm more interested in the at-least-semi-serious ones. Or at least the ones where we get to see something of why the villain considers himself/herself evil, rather than (a) just doing what's necessary, (b) actually the good guy, or (c) the one with the power, so who cares about these meaningless distinctions of "good" and "evil".