101 Villainous Motivations

[Ettina]

178. This country is a mess, and I can fix it. I'll do anything to bring this country to order.
179. I want to rebuild my lost kingdom.
180. I don't wanna die.
181. You crossed me, so I'll hurt you.

(All actual motivations of villainous characters I've made.)

[GiantFlyingHog]

I believe we have all missed an obvious one:
182. Because I AM A SEXY SHOELESS GOD OF WAR!

[Thaneus]

also one of the good ol greek days:
183 you stole my woman lets wage war
184 lets steal some women!
185 THIS IS *random country name*

some orcish ambitions:
186 WAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAARRRRRRRRRRRGGGGGGGGGGHH HHHHHHH!
187 Tools we need, puny humans has it, we take!

[Segev]

188) So, she'll only date me if I'm the last man alive? Challenge accepted.

[Telonius]

199) I swore an oath to restore my family's honor. I'll recover that macguffin, no matter what the cost.

[Segev]

200) When my plan is complete and I reverse time to correct my terrible mistake, all the evil I've done to make it happen will also be erased.

[Dagroth]

201: Dude, my name's Skeletor and I have a Skull for a face. It's not like I can become a Hair Stylist.
202: "Her name is Evil-Lyn! How much more obvious do you need it to be?!?" "But dude, she's hot." "Go team Evil!"

[the_archduke]

189. The current king usurped my throne. I want it back.
190. The current king is an idiot and I would make a better one. Plus his daughter, the princess, is totally hot.
191. The current king (my brother) banished me for trying to steal his throne. I still want it.
192. My child should wed the prince, not the protagonist.
193. I shall be the fairest one of all... stupid mirror. Poison apple time.
194. The rightful ruler has been transformed into a hideous monster. Lets kill it.
195. I was cast out because I am evil, lets curse the whole kingdom into eternal sleep.
196. I have to pay the ransom for my brother, the true king who is being held for ransom. As his regent, I guess I am doubling the taxes. No, tripling the taxes.
197. I am the head of a marauding horde. Your empire is in the way and has nice stuff to steal.
198. The savage natives are sitting on all that rich land. Lets wipe them out and take it.

203. I am the youngest son and have no chance to inherit. I better take the throne of a neighboring kingdom. That nation's queen is clearly a witch, burn her.

[Segev]

204) Those settlers are squatting on our ancestral land. Kill their men and enslave their women and children.

[Dagroth]

205) Crush your enemies. See them driven before you. Hear the lamentations of their women.

[Bohandas]

206.) A twisted sense of humor

[flappeercraft]

207) The ideals we have been taught were wrong all along

[Lord Raziere]

208) Because the world is a garden and there are so many weeds that need uprooting to make it beautiful.

[Malroth]

209) Ragnarok is coming, i must ensure humanity is strong enough to survive
210) You see in this world there's two kinds of people, those with loaded guns and those who dig, You dig.
211) I need the tall two legged slaves to rub my fur and bring me fish.

[Bohandas]

212.) "We take a quick ride, homicide, then I confide in you and I can love you, and technically even though your dead you'll always be around 'cause I'm keeping your head." -ICP, Bowling Balls
213.) "The young are simply too dumb to live, the old are weak and unclean, the ones in the middle they also must die, their ways are obtuse and obscene" -Gwar, Biledriver

61. The gods think our race is growing too powerful. If I don't curb our numbers, they will - and they'll be far less gentle.

214.) The gods think our race is growing too powerful. I must kill the gods!

[Dagroth]

214) Moral relativism is for the weak-minded fools who can't understand that Evil is Fun.

[Braininthejar2]

215 - "The elves took in my family when we escaped the war. But I was never an equal to them. Even their children saw me as... a pet? A pudgy, short-lived thing they could befriend, and then forget when it ages and dies. I will show them what a human can achieve."

216 - "I have seen the work of gods, and found it lacking. I have seen heroes of myth die before my eyes, mere pawns in the divine games. We are all slaves of capricious masters, and the priests are traitors of their kind who serve as our willing jailors. I will not rest until I see humanity in control of its own destiny."

217 - "I want to die. I have been trying for eons to escape this pain. But no matter how hard I try, I am not a mortal. Death has no meaning to me. The only way for me to cease to exist is to unmake reality itself."

218 - "I sacrificed all I had to save the lot of you, and you branded me a villain for the methods I used? Cast me out, labelled me a monster? That will not stand. You all owe me your lives, and if that is your idea of gratitude, I'm taking them all back."

[Bohandas]

219.) "I love people, I love everything about them, and that's why I gotta live life without them. I know it don't make any sense to you, but **** you, this song's about me, exclusively." -ICP Mr.Happy
220.) "Oh it feels so good every time I murder I get happy!" -ICP Mr.Happy
221.) Didn't read the terms of the faustian contract

[Zaq]

222) I need attention the way you need food.

222a) I need the attention, and I need it forever. "The evil that men do lives after them; the good is oft interrèd with their bones."

223) I have no impulse control. I also have an artifact of unspeakable power. I'm not a schemer, but you'd better believe I'm not thinking too hard about ANY consequences. 72 hours remain . . .

[EisenKreutzer]

224) There can be no good without evil. To foster the ultimate good, I must become the ultimate evil.

225) A paladin ran off with my wife, just because I'm an ogre and something he called "consent." Feh.

[Misereor]

226) I fell, and the Avariel who condemned me shall fall also.
By having their wings cut off and being forced to walk the plank from the tall cliff where their capital is placed, to eventually make a nice little mound of dead flesh at the bottom.

227) To maintain the Balance between Civilization and Wilderness. (What makes the grass grow? Blood! Blood! Blood!)

228) Hi, my name is Guido, and I'm just an ordinary guy trying to make a living.

229) We need fresh hosts!

230) No, seriously! If the Sun God doesn't receive his sacrifices, a big Wolf will swallow all the light!

231) Well, someone needs to take care of my fellow infected.

232) Homocidal rages be damned, I'm running for Governor!

233) Superpowers need to be regulated!

234) No they don't!

235) Hi, my name is Johnny Lomumba. I'm the son of a deceased Nigerian Dictator, and I need to move several millions dollars out of the country...

236) All that doesn't concern us. We're just trying to buy some <insert rare wood or mineral>.

237) Sorry, but we need that drug money to finance our struggle for freedom.

238) Oh yeah? Well Sharks have rights! They need to eat too, buddy!

239) I'm sorry, but one of the Altar boys escaped from the Vestry, and we will stop at nothing to get him back.

240) Why I quite agree. Overpopulation *is* the most serious problem the world is facing. But how come you're bringing up the subject, Doctor von Anthrax?

[Bohandas]

241.) I need to finish paying off my law school tuition

[Braininthejar2]

242: "My world is dying, and my people need a new home. This one will do, as soon as I raise the temeperature above the water boiling point. They can't survive in this cold."

[n00b17]

243) "Look man, I'm just doing the job I got hired to do, same as you"

[Bohandas]

244.) Got to do something to pass the time

[Vessyra]

#225: If everyone is dead, no new beings will come to life, so no new beings shall die. I shall save [I]trillions[I] of lives by preventing them from living in the first place.

[Sagetim]

241*) I am the king, It is my right and due.
242) The old must be burned to make way and fertilize new growth.
243) I just don't like you.




*we had at least 3 apparently unnoticed duplicates in here.

[Dagroth]

244) A single voice is often drowned out by the masses... so if there are no more masses, my voice will finally be heard!

[Braininthejar2]

[Bohandas]

244) A single voice is often drowned out by the masses... so if there are no more masses, my voice will finally be heard!

246) A single voice is often drowned out by the masses but the one telling me to kill comes in clear as a bell, even if I'm at a noisy rock concert or something