[ WP ] Sloth , the villain

Sloth also manifests as an unwillingness to do the right thing if it is hard. 
 
 I imagine someone in that case who has bold ideals, but feels they are out of reach, and so resorts to the lazier, more violent, solution. E.g. Omnicide is easier than improving the planet. It's still a very energetic character, though. 
 
 So, to make a truly slothful villain, we need look nay further than the generic Evil Overlord. This guy already has almost everything, what little he does n't have can easily be within his grasp, yet he sits on his hands and does nothing to ensure his reign. A villain whose power comes from negligence of the system. 
 
 One could take a more abstract approach - that the villain is the system itself. A corpulent bureaucracy in which nothing can be accomplished, like the Vogons of Douglas Adams' stories, who end up destroying Earth due to their obtuse regulations, and would n't help their own grandmother from the ravening bugblatter beast of Traal without an extensive and arcane process of form filling and filing. 
 
 Another option is to have an avatar of that bureaucracy, which is a bit character that has appeared several times in many shows ( appears a few times in the sitcom *Spaced*, memorably enough ), who uses the system to obstinately resist things happening, likely out of a personal motivation to not do any work and a complete disregard for the poor humans at the other end of the situation.
