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This is the motivation of an amoral character seeking... well, amusement. It's not that they enjoy being good or evil -- they may not know or care about the difference -- but they do whatever they feel like without regard for others. They don't need a motivation or justification for doing anything beyond the amusement of the act itself. As a result they almost inevitably do things that are dickish, maybe even cruel, but generally not ''outright'' evil. This same character will lead you into a trap, fight you to the death... and then stop on the brink of killing you to laugh and say "Are you all right?" They won't kill the hero, because they find their attempts to save the day amusing, or are intrigued by the sheer selflessness of their thinking. They may help the hero, they may help the villain, they may do both at once or screw over both at once. They are rarely if ever a driving force behind a story, but they nonetheless play a significant role. And why do they do all this? Why do they [[Heel Face Revolving Door|switch sides so often]]? Why are they [[The Dragon|working below]] the [[Big Bad]] when they're [[Dragon Withwith an Agenda|just as powerful and intelligent as he is]], [[Hypercompetent Sidekick|if not more?]] Why did they [[Faux Yay|make out with the hero of the same gender]]?
 
Because it was fun. They'd do just about anything for a lark, really.
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== Anime and Manga ==
* Pretty much par for the course in ''[[Death Note (Manga)|Death Note]]'':
** In the first chapter, Ryuk, a god of death, drops his [[Exactly What It Says Onon the Tin|notebook of death]] in the human world because he's bored. It falls into the hands of Light Yagami, who decides to use it to try bending the world to his will because, he explains, he too is bored.
*** Light's real motivation does seem to be that he's doing it for fun. He plays far too many unnecessary -- but entertaining -- mind games with the police for it to be anything else.
** Light's primary antagonist L, a teen supergenius detective, as an [[Expy]] of [[Sherlock Holmes]] chases Light's alter ego for the lulz. Part of L's reputation, again like [[Sherlock Holmes]], is that he refuses to take on a case that doesn't interest and challenge him, even though he's leagues above the rest of the world's police.
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* [[Trickster Mentor|Urahara]] from ''[[Bleach]]'' also has a tendency to screw with people just for the hell of it. When beginning training, he gives Ichigo a helmet and claims that Ichigo needs to yell "Take this! The power of justice! Justice armor! Justice hachimaki! Attack!" When Ichigo does so almost instantly, Urahara mutters, "Wow! I can't believe he actually said that!"
** Or the famous scene where he writes directions to Ichigo, Orihime, Ishida, and Chad outside of their houses... in blood. Scrawled underneath these directions are the words, "If you thought this was straight out of a horror movie, you have no sense of humor." Incidentally, that is ''exactly'' what they all thought.
* In ''[[Mobile Suit Gundam 00]]'', the character Wang Liu Mei is [[The Mole]] during the entire series, pretending to be a valuable ally to the heroes, but then passing information on to the villains (and vice versa). As she expresses several times, she's simply bored and wants to see the world change -- but doesn't care at all whether it is for good or ill.
* The only reason the ''[[Sekirei]]'' plan exists is because someone got the bright idea of a Pokémon-style game.
* '''''Xellos''''', from ''[[Slayers]]''. After about fifteen episodes' worth of hunting for the Claire Bible, it turns out that he knew where it was all along. He just didn't tell Lina and the others because he found it more entertaining to watch their antics as they went on multiple wild goose chases for the better part of a season. He also is prone to "forgetting" to state key pieces of information to watch the results.
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* In ''[[One Piece]]'', this is Mihawk's justification for destroying Don Krieg's fleet and pursuing the survivors: He was bored, and they were there. He also allows Zoro to live following their duel for the same reason: Zoro has potential to be amusing for a very long time, once he [[Takes a Level In Badass]].
* The Prince of Dogra from ''[[Level E]]''. He's the kind of guy who <s>can</s> will ''buy a planet'' and hand out advanced military tech just to play a (potentially deadly) prank on five random grade-schoolers and his second-in-command. Because he thinks it's funny.
* {{spoiler|Ronnie Suchiart}} of ''[[Baccano (Light Novel)|Baccano]]'' cites this as the motivation for most of his actions. Very old and very powerful [[Eldritch Abomination|Eldritch Abominations]] tend to also get very ''bored''.
* Cell from ''[[Dragonball Z]]'' spiced up his [[For the Evulz]] with this. Fat Buu from the same combined it with his creator's [[For the Evulz]]. And, although he's mostly serious about being [[The Cape]] (with no cape), Son Goku himself plays the trope fairly straight (many times to his cost, such as when he [[Idiot Hero|prolonged the fight against Frieza after he turned Super Saiyan]], [[Nice Job Breaking It, Hero|allowing the latter to destroy Namek]] and to deploy his full power. This enabled Frieza to [[What the Hell, Hero?|waste more of Goku's then-precious time]] because he was momentarily capable to keep him in check, mostly with speed). Also, Gohan in Super Saiyan 2 form, against Cell, and others.
* ''[[Yu Yu Hakusho]]'': {{spoiler|When he discovers he's actually part-[[Youkai]], and thus one of the most powerful beings to exist}}, Yusuke promptly tells [[A God Am I|everyone to "KNEEL BEFORE ME, YOU INSECTS!"]]... before he immediately [[Deadpan Snarker|wonders why anyone would do that]], and has a good laugh at [[Oh Crap|his friends' faces]].
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** While Kanzeon is a bit of a bitch, she's ultimately on the side of the main characters, if only because one is her nephew, but Nii/Kenyuu/Ukoku is a genius who finds everything in life so easy it's deadly dull, so seeks out "eat or be eaten" situations so as to feel alive/find a challenge he can't meet so he can die. He is shocked by Koumyou's comment that since he finds everything boring, he must be a boring person. Koumyou is also a super-genius who in contrast is very lazy, avoids difficult situations, and can find joy in almost anything.
* Arguably the reason Haruhi does anything in ''[[The Melancholy of Haruhi Suzumiya]]''. And considering her [[Reality Warper|god-like powers]], one shudders to consider what she would do if aware of them.
* ''[[Umineko no Naku Koro Nini]]'': Bernkastel. {{spoiler|Actually [[For the Evulz]], as she quickly reveals around Episode 4.}}
* Hikaru and Kaoru in ''[[Ouran High School Host Club]]'' do this many times. MANY.
* Pretty much everything Kanade Suzutsuki does in ''[[Mayo Chiki]]'' is simply because it amuses her at the time.
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{{quote| '''[[The Joker|Joker]]''': Kid, I don't kill people for no reason. I only kill people when it's ''funny''.}}
* [[Thanos]] gives this as his reason for aiding Annihilus in ''[[Annihilation]]''; just to see what would happen if the universal balance was completely thrown off-kilter.
* Are you freaking ''kidding'' me! This trope is, like, [[Deadpool|my]] prime motivation! That and money, so I can pay my phone bills. For example; I once fought Bullseye in a meatsuit for this very reason... That's to say, I wasn't fighting Bullseye wearing a meatsuit, but rather I was wearing a meatsuit while fighting Bullseye... Yeah, and it was also the reason behind me [[Disguised in Drag|wearing a lolita dress]] [[Faux Yay|and wailing]] [[Ho Yay|"save me Spider-Man!"]] Heheh, that was hella funny... Oh, oh! And that time I wore [[X -Men|Jean Grey's uniform]] and... you know what, if we listed all the times I've done this, we'll be here all day... so yeah, [[Motor Mouth|anyway, as I was saying]], I wore Jean Grey's uniform and [[Blah Blah Blah]] exciting-story-of-my-life [[Shameless Self Promoter|buy all of my comics for more information about that]].
{{quote| '''Me:''' I don't even like chimichangas. [[Inherently Funny Words|I just like saying it.]] }}
 
 
== Fanfiction ==
* In [[I Put On My Robe and Wizard Hat (Fanfic)|I Put On My Robe and Wizard Hat]], ''why'' exactly does {{spoiler|Urobuchi}} Shirou piss off Lancer -- who's trying to ''kill'' him -- by forcing a download of dog porn directly into his brain?
{{quote| '''Shirou''': I did it... for the lawlz...}}
* In ''[[Tiberium Wars (Fanfic)|Tiberium Wars]]'', this is the entire reason why [[Dark Messiah|Kane]] has Nod's facilities lit with dim red lights. He finds his minions' constant stubbing of toes and banging of shins against consoles to be ''hilarious''.
* Almost everything that [[Harry Potter|Harry]] {{spoiler|and Sirius}} do in ''[[Oh God Not Again (Fanfic)|Oh God Not Again]]'' is for this purpose.
* In ''[[With Strings Attached (Fanfic)|With Strings Attached]]'', Brox, Grunnel, and As'taris are sadistic practical jokers. Brox's given name is, in fact, “Funny.” (The four would violently disagree with this.) Much of what Brox does is at least partially [[For the Lulz]]. Even Grunnel, who is genuinely fond of the four (at least, they're not his enemies), pulls some fairly nasty shit on them, including making them climb a hundred-foot staircase and not bothering to warn George that Ma'ar is a nympho or of her, um, tendencies during sex.
{{quote| George: I think she carved her name in me back with her fingernails.<br />
Grunnel: Sar uses a knife on me. }}
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* From ''[[The Long Riders]]'':
{{quote| Belle Starr: "You're both crazy, but you do keep me amused. I am having a '''real''' good time."}}
* ''[[Dangerous Liaisons (Literature)|Dangerous Liaisons]]'', the original that ''[[Cruel Intentions]]'' was based upon.
* In ''[[Trading Places]]'', the Duke brothers decided to do their "social experiment" out of boredom and for a $1 bet, and completely ruined one of the protagonist's lives (they did help the other protagonist, but that was really only out of boredom as well; they didn't give a damn about him, and were planning to ruin him afterwards as well).
* This trope pretty much sums the character Randal from ''[[Clerks]]''.
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{{quote| '''Budd Foxx''': Why do you need to wreck this company?<br />
'''Gordon Gekko''': Because it's ''wreckable'', alright? }}
* In ''[[Men in Black (Filmfilm)|Men in Black]]'', as K grabs a [[Hyper-Destructive Bouncing Ball]]:
{{quote| This caused the 1977 New York blackout. A practical joke by the great attractor. He thought it was funny as hell. }}
* From ''[[Gremlins|Gremlins 2]]'', the Brain Gremlin after he shoots one of his fellows in the face with a pistol:
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== Literature ==
* The Dead Man from Glen Cook's [[Garrett PIP.I.]] novels enjoys pulling Garret along and trying to get him to think, usually with one or two Xanatos Gambits in the background in case Garret screws up, simply because it amuses him.
* This is arguably Samuel Westing's reason for the entire plot of ''[[The Westing Game]]'', or at least the form in which the events take.
* [[Sherlock Holmes]] often accepts cases simply because he finds them intriguing, although he still has an altruistic side and a strong desire for justice.
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** Jordan has explicitly described her motivation for tormenting people as "[[For the Lulz|for funsies]]".
** Dr. Cox constantly torments [[Nervous Wreck]] Doug Murphy for this reason, with notable cases being when Cox gives him 30 seconds to find a clipboard ([[Snipe Hunt|that Cox is holding out of Murphy's line of sight]]) or [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uw3x8XxVLDQ this scene].
* From ''[[Star Trek: theThe Next Generation]]'':
{{quote| '''Voice of Armus''' (on killing a main character): Exactly! It had no meaning. I did it because I wanted to. It amused me.}}
** And then subverted by Troi, whom Armus has held hostage:
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'''Armus''': You're right. It was too ''easy!'' }}
** Also from ''[[Star Trek]]'', this is why Trelane does the shit he does, although for him it may overlap with [[For the Evulz]].
** Q from ''[[Star Trek: theThe Next Generation]]'', who it is theorized may be related in some way. Though most ''Trek'' fans tend to forget the pilot episode where Q has a very clear reason for doing what he does: to "prosecute and judge" humanity as a directive from the Q Continuum. The audience is reminded of this in the series' final episode, too, when Picard finds himself back in the same court room he encountered Q in the first time:
{{quote| '''Picard''': Is humanity on trial again?<br />
'''Q''': No. The trial never ended. We never reached a verdict. But now we have: You're guilty. Guilty of being inferior. }}
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'''Worf:''' Why didn't you tell me earlier?<br />
'''Dax:''' It's more fun this way. }}
* The title character of ''[[House (TV series)|House]]'' might qualify, although in the end, he often does it to either A) get the paycheck, or B) teach his associates, or even C) both. Of course, there's a ''reason'' he's sometimes considered the [[Trope Codifier]] for [[Dr. Jerk]]...
* In one episode of ''[[Highlander the Series]]'', Joe Dawson's daughter is kidnapped by an immortal with a grudge against Methos. In order to get her back, the immortal orders Joe to lead Methos to him for an ambush. All throughout the day and night, [[Oblivious Guilt Slinging|Methos talks about the bond growing between Joe and himself]], and the unlikeliness of their friendship, until Joe finally snaps and tells the truth about the ambush, at which point Methos tells Joe that he's known all along. When Joe demands to know why Methos drew things out over the whole day, the explanation is: "I'm easily amused."
* In the episode "Countrycide" of ''[[Torchwood (TV)|Torchwood]]'', a {{spoiler|town full of cannibals}} have been kidnapping and murdering people. When Gwen asks one of them why, he responds, "Because it makes me happy."
* Sean Connery from the ''Celebrity [[Jeopardy (TV)|Jeopardy!]]'' sketches on [[Saturday Night Live|SNL]]. He doesn't keep coming back because the other players are [[Too Dumb to Live]], nor does he come back because he enjoys the game of ''[[Jeopardy (TV)|Jeopardy!]]''; he only shows up time and time again because he likes to piss off Alex Trebek.
* On the ''[[Firefly]]'' episode “Shindig”, Mal stands victorious over Atherton Wing whom he has just, through fortunate happenstance, defeated in a duel. Upon being told he must kill him rather than allow him to lie there in defeat, he replies, ”Mercy is the mark of a great man,” then lightly stabs Wing in the abdomen. “Guess I'm just a good man.” He then stabs him again and finishes with, “Well, I'm all right.“ Upon being chastised with, “You didn't have to wound that man.”, Mal quips back, “Yeah, I know, it was just funny.”
** River seems to make commentary designed to deliberately anger or annoy Jayne just because it is amusing to her. Particularly when she insinuated that he has a "girl's name" and solemnly warns him that "I can kill you with my brain."
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{{quote| '''Alan:''' Why do you keep doing that?<br />
'''Charlie:''' Haven't we covered this before? It amuses me! }}
* The real culprit's motive for pooping the bed in the [[ItsIt's Always Sunny in Philadelphia]] episode [[Exactly What It Says Onon the Tin|"Who pooped the bed?"]]
{{quote| '''{{spoiler|Frank}}''': I did 'em all. All the poops.<br />
'''The Gang''': Why?<br />
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== Theatre ==
* In ''[[The Merchant of Venice (Theatre)|The Merchant of Venice]]'', Launcelot Gobbo runs into his blind father, who doesn't recognize him. Instead of explaining who he is, Launcelot continues to pretend to be a stranger... and informs him that his son is dead, just to see what will happen.
* Puck from ''[[A Midsummer Night's Dream (Theatre)|A Midsummer Nights Dream]]'' hexes humans for his amusement. (Then again, well... see "[[The Fair Folk]]" under "Mythology" above.)
* [[Peter Pan]] is prone to this trope, because he's a little kid and doesn't think seriously about the consequences of what he does.
 
 
== Video Games ==
* Lucifer in ''[[Devil Survivor (Video Game)|Devil Survivor]]'' {{spoiler|had Beelzebub join the fight for the Throne Of Bel}} for this reason. He's also willing to fight you as a [[Bonus Boss]] because he's basically bored.
** {{spoiler|The Gigolo, a.k.a. Loki (see above)}} mostly helps you because he wants to mess with {{spoiler|Beldr. Again}}.
* In ''[[Persona 4 (Video Game)|Persona 4]]'' {{spoiler|Adachi}} kicks off the whole plot, {{spoiler|at least from his end}}, for what amounts to needing some entertainment.
* Fairies in ''[[Touhou (Video Game)|Touhou]]'' have little restraint, less sense of mortality (being immortal as long as the aspect of nature they represent exists), and [[The Fog of Ages|very poor memories]], resulting in an entire species of perpetual children that never learn from their mistakes, resulting in them doing things that make no sense other than because they thought it would be funny. A lot of ''Touhou Sangetsusei'' is about the [[Terrible Trio|Three Mischievous Fairies]] invoking this trope.
** Nue Houjuu spent who knows how long pranking humans and pretending to be sealed away, only to repeat the process, before she decided to take a nap underground. She has her limits, though, as she regrets screwing with Minamitsu and company's attempts to release [[Sealed Good in Aa Can|Byakuren]].
** Tewi Inaba doesn't seem to able to get through the day without playing a prank on someone. Usually [[Butt Monkey|Reisen]].
** [[Light Is Not Good|Tenshi Hinanai]], who causes unusual weather across Gensoukyou, destroys the Hakurei Shrine with a small earthquake, and threatens to unleash an even larger earthquake... because she was getting bored with the carefree life of heaven and, seeing the regular incidents in Gensoukyou, wanted to cause one herself.
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** He had the same reasons as the rest of the anarchs for the results. The ''methods'' made it an [[Overly Prepared Gag]].
** The overall implication is that Smilin' Jack is a [[Magnificent Bastard]] that knows exactly what he is doing and has very set goals.
* The only stated reason Durandal has for buzzing Earth in a Precursor warship ten thousand years after the end of ''[[Marathon (Video Game)Trilogy|Marathon]] 2''.
* [[Video Game Cruelty Potential|The player. Often. In almost any game.]]
** When the player starts doing this online against other players when the game is not a [[Player Versus Player]] type, then this falls into [[Griefer]] status.
* Sanguine, the Daedric Prince<ref>A Daedric Prince is something between a demi-god and very powerful demon lord; they are not always evil, but tend to be chaotic</ref> of Debauchery from The Elder Scrolls universe. In [[Oblivion]], he sends the player on a quest in which his/her task is to cast a spell that removes all clothes from everyone affected in a middle of a prominent nobles' banquet ({{spoiler|and fails to inform him/her that he/she will also become one of its victims}}). In [[Skyrim]], after sharing a few drinks with a disguised Sanguine, the character wakes up in a completely diferent city at least a day after, and can set out on a quest to rediscover what it was s/he was doing in the meantime ({{spoiler|which included wedding rings, goats, and temple desecration}}).
** This seems to be the ''modus operandi'' for most of the Daedric Princes (though some mix it with [[Orange and Blue Morality]]). In [[Oblivion]], Molag Bal, Daedric Prince of Corruption, uses the player to corrupt the soul of an honorable paladin [[For the Evulz|just because he can]]. Meanwhile, Boethia, Prince of Plots, organizes a brutal tournament for the player [[For the Lulz|for no real reason; he's just bored]]. And if [[Mad God|Sheogorath]] is involved, chances are this trope will be invoked. Or not, it depends on his mood, really. When he gives you the Wabbajack, it's probably just because he wants to see what you'll do with it.
* The [[Big Bad]] in ''[[MOTHERMother 3]]'' falls into this trope. {{spoiler|Porky ruins the lives of many people and corrupts the rest of the island's population, along with making mechas out of the animals and pulling the seven needles to summon a dragon that could destroy everything, just because he was bored and needed a giggle.}}
* The Storm Titan, the one that invented the most chaotic magic in the Spiral, from [[Wizard 101]] destroys the world of Celestia after he allied with them to stop Morganthe. Why, because like his brand of magic, he can destroy you just as easily a help you. It's likely that in the war of the ancients he's the one that threw the first punch
 
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* In ''[[Sluggy Freelance]]'', Uncle Time is an [[Odd Job Gods|Odd Job God]] with this attitude.
** Bun-bun can veer into this too if he's in a good mood, especially with his "friends", whom he has come to grudgingly care about a tiny little bit. [[For the Evulz]] is a better characterisation for many of the things he does, though.
* In ''[[El Goonish Shive (Webcomic)|El Goonish Shive]]'', it was revealed that The Hammers that all women can call forth to painfully (but harmlessly) reprimand offensive men actually cause more offensive actions/comments because it's a reaction. The immortal who created them did so for the gag factor. Susan is [[Freak-Out|NOT amused]].
* Donovan in ''[[Dominic Deegan (Webcomic)|Dominic Deegan]]'' reveals that his [[My Hovercraft Is Full of Eels|comically poor grasp of the Orcish language]] was just a front; he knew how to speak the language perfectly for roughly twenty years, but insisted on the mangled version because he thought it was funny (and that he was a bard, as being funny is the reason bards do ''anything'').
* Coyote from ''[[Gunnerkrigg Court (Webcomic)|Gunnerkrigg Court]]''. Comes with being a [[Trickster God]], as mentioned above under Mythology.
* King Radical from ''[[The Adventures of Dr. McNinja (Webcomic)|The Adventures of Dr. McNinja]]''. His two goals in life seem to be making Cumberland a more ''radical'' place, and messing with Dr McNinja's head. Why? For fun.
* ''[[8-Bit Theater (Webcomic)|Eight Bit Theater]]'': "Why did you do it like that?" [http://www.nuklearpower.com/2004/06/26/episode-434-wouldnt-you-like-to-know/ "We thought it'd be funny."]
** [[Actually Pretty Funny|"Heh. That was funny, wasn't it."]]
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== Web Original ==
* [[Image Boards|4chan]] and its associated... things (e.g. ''Encyclopedia Dramatica'') are the ones who coined the term "for the lulz". [http://ohinternet.com/Rules_of_the_Internet Let's just leave it at that].
* Sean from ''Ronin Dojo Community College DX'' explains that he does things "for the lulz". Of course, what he does is smash popular games in front of a webcam [[Exactly What It Says Onon the Tin|so people on the internet can say "lol"]], but that's [[Serious Business]].
* The trolls who prank call Ghost during every ''single'' episode of [[True Capitalist (Radio)|True Capitalist]] Radio just to hear him rage and rage... and rage.
 
 
== Western Animation ==
* "The Twins" from ''[[Superjail (Animation)|Superjail]]''.
* Season 4 Megabyte in ''[[Re Boot]]'', though he doesn't get enough screen time to change sides. He even says the trope name when asked about {{spoiler|why he would disguise himself as Bob and marry Dot.}}
{{quote| '''Bob''': Why Megabyte? Why do this?<br />
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* King Bumi, from ''[[Avatar: The Last Airbender]]'', actually stated that the reason he screwed with Aang so much is "Mostly because it's fun messing with people!"
* [[Carmen Sandiego]] steals the hardest things in the universe to steal just to prove she can. The TV versions have it explained this way: She likes the challenge of detective work and outwitting people, but criminals aren't the brightest critters. The people actually worth challenging were other detectives, but she couldn't do that as a good guy; time for a [[Face Heel Turn]], then. She considers her most glorious caper not to be stealing the Eiffel Tower, a country's entire gold supply, or anything of actual value... but having managed to steal her own detective records from ACME itself.
* Two minor characters from ''[[Teen Titans (Animationanimation)|Teen Titans]]'', Thunder and Lightning, terrorize people because they find it "amusing". They don't take the feelings of the people around them into account, something Beast Boy calls them out on.
* When [[Invader Zim]]'s abduction of Dib threatens family dinner night, Gaz seeks to retrieve him from the alien containment. Zim saw her and could've attempted to stop her... but didn't, as he expected to get a laugh out of seeing her try. To paraphrase [[Star Wars|Yoda]], she ''did''. There was no try.
* ''[[Gargoyles]]'': The whole episode "The Mirror" consists of Faerie trickster Puck trolling Demona [[Jackass Genie|at]] [[Literal Genie|every]] [[Exact Words|step]], and having a blast doing it. At one point, he remarks, "Serving humans is fun. They have a sense of humor."
* Bart from ''[[The Simpsons]]'' is a personification of this trope. In the past, he has played pranks on his family, school faculty, and the town itself, but was usually remorseful if his pranks has hurt someone badly. In the more recent episodes, Bart pulls pranks just to get a laugh and make himself amused, no matter how bad someone gets hurt. He gets upset whenever someone does try to punish him for playing a prank too far, as if they took his only source of entertainment away.
* Similar to Bart, Peter in ''[[Family Guy]]'' will cause random shenanigans just for a quick giggle, no matter what the outcome of it is.
* Roger of ''[[American Dad (Animation)|American Dad]]'' similarly utilizes this to an occasionally sociopathic extreme.
* In ''[[My Little Pony: Friendship Is Magic (Animation)|My Little Pony Friendship Is Magic]]'', this initially seems to be Discord's motivation (it helps that he's voiced by John de Lancie) for throwing Equestria into chaos with cotton candy clouds that rain chocolate milk, corn popping spontaneously in the fields, and apples growing to tremendous sizes and making the rabbits that eat them grow long deer-like legs. But then he brainwashes Fluttershy after she isn't fooled by his tricks, putting him in [[For the Evulz]] territory.
* A lot of what Chris [[Mc Lean]] does in [[Total Drama Island]] is for his own amusement. He admits to putting a quicksand trap in one challenge for no particular reason, among other things. And while he does get crueler and more apathic in later seasons, his main motivation for his deeds is either pumping more drama out of the show, or getting a few good laughs.
 
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* [http://www.dailymail.co.uk/tvshowbiz/article-1380336/Mario-Balotelli-notches-100k-parking-fines.html Mario Balotelli] lives his life this way. From racking up tens of thousands of pounds in parking tickets to going to a kids' school to stop bullying to walking around with obscene amounts of cash. Why? "Because he can".
* During all the drama that surrounded Lebron James going to play for Miami, Chris Bosh's explanation for not doing the same with any more tact? [http://sports.yahoo.com/nba/blog/ball_dont_lie/post/Chris-Bosh-I-played-with-people-s-emotions-du?urn=nba-262662 "It's entertaining to see people react to your real emotions, because if it wasn't fun I wouldn't do it."]
* The entire schtick of the ''[[Jackass (TV)|Jackass]]'' boys.
{{quote| '''Ryan Dunn''': (Explaining to Bam Magera's mom why he stabbed Bam in the ass with a hot iron brand in the shape of a dick) "Because it was funny."}}
 
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