Stupid Evil
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Yes, Lawful Stupid has its Evil counterpart. A general trait of Stupid Evil is doing evil things for the sake of being evil, rather than because they are (morality aside) easy or viable paths towards wealth, power, revenge, or whatever the villain's goal is. Especially when a non evil, or less evil way of doing things would work better.
A villain who is truly insane can get away with this sort of thing since what compels them to act in an evil manner is the fact that they have some screws loose, but "serious" nemeses and long-term, high-threat villains are usually expected to have a goal and some capacity for rational planning; a villain who takes time out of a busy day to kick a puppy or eat a kitten just to establish evil credibility will probably be treated with derision by players.
Examples of Stupid Evil
- Joffrey Baratheon
- He sends an assassin armed with a Valyrian Blade (an unusual weapon for a sellsword) to kill Bran Stark. And when that fails, iut causes the Starks to suspect the Lannisters.
- He kills Eddard Stark, therefore sparking an unnecessary and very costly civil war (and this was against what his family had planned).
- He chooses to ignore his duties and the welfare of his people in favor of satiating his sadistic behavior.
- He has one of his Kingsguard to murder his Uncle Tyrion in the middle of the battle of blackwater instead of just simply poisoning him (as Tyrion pointed out).
- He calls Tywin a coward. Luckily for him, they were related. Because if he wasn't, he would have been struck down.
- Cersei Lannister
- While not as dumb as her son Joffrey (hardly something to be proud of) she is paranoid and if she, for any reason thinks you might threaten her or her children, she will view you as an enemy and will at best be a passive aggressive bitch to you, at worst have you brutally tortured to death.
- She ignores the numerous acts of cruelty and stupidity of her son and bruises off any criticism of them.
- Any given Captain Planet villain
- Strawman villains in bad political fiction in general
- Some followers of Chaos such as Firaeveus Carron can prove to be this most of the time.
- Sicks (yep, that's his name) from demonic detective neuro.
- Causing unnecessary murder or tragedy on other family for his own satisfaction(he is a sadist btw).
- Randomly pissing off Neuro, a real demon and starting the most gore, violent arc that Jump had ever published.
- Claiming his own ideal of evil is the "true evil" but rather just a cheap, rotten flavor of a puzzle in Neuro's tongue.
- Also, his family has done the same thing as he did for many generations and claiming that this "evil" has evolve them into more human than anyone else.
- GrimDark as a whole often offs into this, in that things are crappy for the sake of being crappy.