My favorite is Bog king from Strange Magic - Has a song talking about how evil he is. But all he does is prevent the spread of dangerous mind control magic, and quarantine people under the effects of said magic. Yes he greatly annoys people doing so, but honestly? If I get hit by a love potion, please quarantine me.

  • CitizenKong@lemmy.world
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    5 hours ago

    Well, he never says he’s evil but is certainly seen as a villian: Dr. Victor van Doom. He’s actually seen all possible timelines of humanity and only the one where he reigns is not ending in destruction. https://qph.cf2.quoracdn.net/main-qimg-4d9668819558c73a8fda43cd4bc0ef0a-lq He is also loved by the people of the country he does rule. And when he had indeed managed to rule the world, it was a time of peace. I mean, mind control peace (he amplified the power of Killgrave the Purple Man) but still.

  • Nibodhika@lemmy.world
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    10 hours ago

    Character that insist is evil but clearly isn’t: Crowley from Supernatural.

    But I think that character that is actually evil but still charming is more interesting, and for that I bring forward Baal from Stargate.

  • ElectricMachman@lemmy.sdf.orgEnglish
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    8 hours ago

    Dr. Cortex is undoubtedly evil; but he MASSIVELY overexaggerates just how much of an evil genius he is. The worst thing he did (other than building a slave army from endangered native creatures) was shoot an emu one time. Most of the other bad things he did were more incompetence than malice

  • ivanafterall ☑️@lemmy.worldEnglish
    645·
    1 day ago

    Literally Satan.

    Among his greatest sins: trying to be a bro and let Adam and Eve know that they were naked in some perv’s garden

    Edit: come to think of it, it’s not entirely accurate, as I don’t think Satan ever claims to be evil. But there’s a lot of anti-Satan propaganda in the Bible.

    • Dagwood222@lemm.ee
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      1 day ago

      TV show Lucifer is a fun watch. The Devil gets tired of running Hell and decides to relocate to LA.

      • Nalivai@lemmy.world
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        13 minutes ago

        It would be so much of a better show if it wasn’t such a copoganda. The writing is great, actors are great, but their insistence to suck cops dics and portray the police as this noble organization that is making the world the better place one brutalised civilian at a time is just tiring.

    • EleventhHour@lemmy.world
      151·
      1 day ago

      I think you would really enjoy reading paradise lost. OK, maybe you wouldn’t enjoy reading it because it’s written in late 15th century iambic pentameter, and the anachronistic vocabulary makes it a bit of a slog— but it’s an incredible (apocryphal, but what about Satan isn’t?) story about how Lucifer became Satan.

      Just make sure to get an annotated copy so you can understand what the hell is going on.

      • QuantumSparkles@sh.itjust.works
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        1 day ago

        Not explicitly. The book of Enoch (non-canon) claims it was Azazel, other sources claim Samael or even Lilith. Now if you want to take a completely secular view it’s important to note that Satan as we think of him now is a Christian concept and doesn’t exist in the Torah or in classical Judaism, but was simply a term meaning “accuser” or “tempter” that wasn’t a person or individual but more of a general concept of sin or temptation that prevented someone from doing the will of god

      • Death_Equity@lemmy.world
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        1 day ago

        Satan is referred to as a serpent a couple times in the bible.

        I haven’t read the Hebrew version, so maybe that telling says it?

    • PhlubbaDubba@lemm.ee
      623·
      1 day ago

      Ð notion of Satan as an antagonistic force is not entirely in line wið ð actual þeology.

      For example, he’s not ð snake. Ðat was a revision introduced in paradise lost, which along wið ð divine comedy are more or less biblical fan cannon.

      In actual þeology, ð devil is more or less God’s right hand overseeing ð meeting out of afterlife justice. IIRC he’s even sought after for council by God or at least perspective for oðer characters speaking wið god.

      Job is basically two work colleagues holding a wager as a tool for god to illustrate ð message ðat good deeds must be done for ðeir own sake, and not for ð sense ðat doing ð right þing will lead inherently to a better life.

      Satan is literally ðere to remind people ðat ð world being unfair is actually good news, because it means ðat being down on your luck doesn’t mean you’re a bad person.

  • Annoyed_🦀 @monyet.cc
    611·
    1 day ago

    Megamind. Dude raised in prison and bullied his whole life, he just want attention from Metroman. Once he got the attention of Roxanne the act basically stopped.

    • AnyOldName3@lemmy.world
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      15 hours ago

      He did more-or-less kill, and then steal the identity of, the museum guy. He’s not a paragon of virtue, either.

      • Annoyed_🦀 @monyet.cc
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        14 hours ago

        Yeah, but he isn’t evil that he likes to think he is. He kinda mess up the town once in a while while trying to get even with Metroman. Though there’s no confirmed kill from him. Titan on the other hand is evil.

  • xmunk@sh.itjust.works
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    22 hours ago

    Melkior/Morgoth, they saw that Arda was a deeply flawed creation and attempted to correct it before existence was sung into being.

    After the fact their actions are certainly viewed as evil by the world they tried to change but had the rest of the Vala joined his song the world simply would have been different, not worse.