Editing Alignment (section)

===Chaotic Evil===
{{Topquote|Let their blood RAIN FROM THE '''SKY'''!!!|Jeremy Irons, ''Dungeons & Dragons (2000)''}}
{{Topquote|Gold... Prisoners... I don't care about such things. All I wish to see are humans within a fiery apocalypse. Trying to escape. All I wish to hear is the sound of snapping bones crushed under the hooves of horses. I don't even need an excuse. None at all...|The Snake Baron, ''[[Berserk]]''}}

A psychopath who's evil for the sake of being evil. There's no redeeming/remotely sane factor why they're Satan-incarnate — someone didn't betray them, no-one is threatening their survival, they're not aiming to set things right in their own misguided way; they only care about themselves and relish hurting others. They will murder people for kicks, [[rape]] and torture people to get their willies on, and hates everyone else, just because they were there. Some people just want to watch the world burn; those are Chaotic Evil people.

Always on a feud against society and will piss on a book of law just because he likes it, and fuck you, and fuck your law too, and I’ll eat your babies. This alignment has little-to-no depth at all and is very dangerous to keep around; its only real purpose is to make a quick 2D villain for your party to murder without any qualms, show the absolute nadir of morality resulting from someone's corruption, or a fun psycho-type character in a non-serious game. It is highly recommended you give them a good stomping and throw their corpse off the ramparts as soon as possible, because they will be troubling the moment their attention shifts to you. If you start out your party with one, you kinda deserve it, once the inevitable happens. 

It should be mentioned, however, that being Chaotic Evil has nothing to do with being a fucking idiot (though many are very susceptible to falling into one of the "Stupid" alignments as is mentioned below). They might want to brutalize everyone in the room, but as long as the room has people who can stop them immediately at the ready or the people there are otherwise useful for the CE character's schemes, they'll play along; be ready for them coming back and painting said room red with blood as soon as any of those changes, though. And, as explained in "Evil Self-Preservation Failsafe" below, they usually don't attack Evil things - rather, they would team up with Evil guys in the room and go brutalize '''another''' room full of non-evil things.

Beware of [[Stupid Evil]] or worse, someone who ''alternates'' between [[Chaotic Stupid]] and [[Stupid Evil]].

Things with Evil alignment — especially those of Chaotic Evil kind — have a phenomenon that could be called "'''Evil Self-Preservation Failsafe'''". Apparently, Evil things can subconsciously detect Evil, and cooperate with other Evil things, due to «If we cooperate, we can do more Evil - and i love doing Evil!» and «Harming Evil is "Good"-sided thing - and i hate doing "Good"-sided things!». That allows Evil to cooperate without fulminating violently; it allows, for example, specialization and somewhat functioning society and strategy (though, less functioning and proper than what Good or Neutral people could do); or, for example, allows for an Evil monster to accept being ridden by an Evil soldier; Evil things will still prioritize themselves over others, even if said "others" are also Evil (e.g. Chaotic Evil monster-mount acts on its own, uncontrolled by rider; "commands" are merely '''recommendations'''). Basically, they can sometimes engage in somewhat altruistic behavior towards other Evil, as long as it doesn't penalize or harm their egoistic tendencies towards themselves — doing the "right" thing for ''grievously wrong'' reasons. In the case of [[Stupid Evil]], or a person ''alternating'' between [[Chaotic Stupid]] and [[Stupid Evil]], "Evil Self-Preservation Failsafe" [[Derp|usually fails]].

:;''Example(s)'': An insane doomsday cultist who fights and kills just for the sake of fighting and killing. A bloodthirsty warlord indiscriminately spilling the blood of whomever is unlucky enough to be in their visual range, just to constantly feel the thrill of taking people's lives. The disfavored creations of Gods (the trope of the fallen favored son going emo dates back to antiquity). Creations of — and things corrupted by — Dark Gods and similar global absolute supernatural «Forces Of Evil» in general.

:;''Iconic Character(s)'': [[Mark Hamill|The Joker]], Failbadon, Freddy Kruger, The Biblical/Quranic Satan... there's a million of these.

:;''Expected Personality'': Low-functioning (impulsiveness is completely unchained) sociopath, constantly scheming bloodthirsty sadist, NPD whilst triggered into a narcissistic rage, bloodthirsty beast/brute in [[Rip and tear|constant rage]]. "For the Evulz!" in full effect.