Delusional

Delusional-type villains are characterized by or holding idiosyncratic beliefs or impressions that are contradicted by reality or rational argument, typically as a symptom or mental disorder; in other words, they commonly make false assumptions. These can be if they believe themselves or someone else as a different species, a god, a real being, a good person, a genius, a handsome or beautiful person both visibly and within. Even those who know they are evil can be deluded.

The types of deluded villains who actually believe themselves to be good people think that what they do is right; this makes them similar to Vigilantes and Anti-villains, but unlike them, a delusional villain's cause is sometimes nothing close to noble. No matter how horrible an act a delusional villain does, they will always see it as a noble act; thus, even though they see themselves as good, many delusional villains can be Pure Evil (e.g. Akainu, Makuta Teridax, Judge Claude Frollo, Koba and Zant, Jonah Kronback).

These types of delusional villains also believe that whoever disagrees with or opposes them is a bad person. Therefore, they are very paranoid and pay little to no attention to the others' opinion. These villains may be greedy or hypocritical, but cannot even see it. Worse, some of them tend to blame someone else for the destruction they cause (especially those who oppose them) while, in reality, it was their fault.

The scope of these villains' delusion can range from being a relatively minor trait (usually just simply believing they are doing good and not fanatical about it) to dangerously extreme to the point of mental illness (such as villains who are extremely outspoken that what they are doing is right and there is absolutely no chance to convince them otherwise).

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• In order to qualify as delusional, it is necessary for them to genuinely believe that they are inherently good individuals and claiming they have good intentions, even if their actions and motives consistently contradict their twisted perceptions.
• Villains that only think of themselves as a higher person than other people and are self-righteous do not qualify (e.g. Cinder Fall, Emperor Palpatine, Joker, Dimentio, The Thousand, Yuuki Terumi, Thanos, Drago Bludvist, Chelsea Van Der Zee, Flowey, Lotso, Ozai, Mysterio, Lord Shen, Vilgax, Junko Enoshima, William Afton, The Entity, John Garrett, Randall Boggs, Infinite, Porky Minch, Esdeath, Red Skull, Azula, General Dreykov, Syndrome, Darkseid, Professor Marmalade, Lord Voldemort, and Scar), those should go under Arrogant or/and Egotist instead.
• Not all delusional villains are Pure Evil, since they may have extremist values (e.g. Zurg and Alexander Pierce) or even be anti-villains with a few noble goals that can be considered mitigating (e.g. Arthur Harrow, Poison Ivy, and Joseph Seed). However, some can qualify as Pure Evil if they claim to have noble goals but are completely hypocritical about them due to how far they would go (e.g. Judge Claude Frollo, Light Yagami, High Evolutionary (MCU), and Emperor Belos).
• Villains who acknowledge their own evilness and take pride in it, but do not exhibit any signs of delusional mindsets, also do not qualify (e.g. Bowser, Shao Kahn, Aku, Merasmus, Freddy Krueger, Chucky, Knull, Tai Lung, Black Shadow, Jill Roberts, Riot, Lucifer, Davoth, Ridley, The Lich, Mephiles the Dark, M. Bison, Diablo, Ganondorf, Johan Liebert, Broly, Medusa, Cell, Michael Myers, Nightmare, Cozy Glow, Djinn, Big Jack Horner, King Sombra, Dr. Eggman, Commander Rourke, Bloodwolf, Judge Holden, Mickey Altieri, and Princess Morbucks). They can only qualify if they meet the aforementioned criteria (e.g. Asav, The End, Superfly, Agustin Allende, The Overlord, Trevor Philips, Amon, Anti-Monitor, Dutch Van Der Linde, Sauron, He Who Remains, Kane, Scarlet King, Dr. Wily, Kurumi Tokisakoi and Mitsuko Souma).