Category:Envious

"I remember a shadow, living in the shade of your greatness. I remember you tossing me into an abyss... I, who was and should be king!"

- Loki, expressing his jealousy of Thor.

Greedy villains who are motivated (at least partially) by envy or jealousy. These are the type of villains who revile and despise the hero or someone else for possessing something that they lack, be it a physical possession or something abstract such as success, popularity, love, wealth, power or something else entirely. Envy is a common motivation for villains even to the point of obsession. Fittingly, it is also one of the Seven Deadly Sins, and is in fact considered to be second only to Pride in severity. Being severely envious of someone else can also lead to early stages of mental insanity.

On the one hand, there are many envious villains becoming Complete Monsters (like Makuta Teridax, Syndrome and Superior Saturday) if their jealousy is so strong that it make them commit their heinous acts.

On the other hand, Envious villains can also be Tragic Villains in that they are motivated and hard working people who genuinely have very little success or constantly fail at their goals, all the while being forced to spend their lives constantly confronted by others wealth and success.