Curate, connect, and discover
Bonus points if their “evil” plans actually benefit more people than they harm, but the media either doesn’t connect the dots or purposely misrepresents them
That old apartment building with a scummy landlord? Evacuate the block, steal everything from it, then knock it down
That company the exploits workers? Their delivery trucks mysteriously never make it to their stores and they have to shut down, local charities start getting random donations of brand new items
That one racist/homophobic/generally awful politician? Killed on their way to work, with no other casualties
Things that are deliberately not accidents, but that people slowly start realizing are actually more positive than negative
i thought of a cool evil villain:
their entire philosophy is "there cannot be good without evil, and the world is too good, so i'll be the evil"
they say that they do this for fun, with the excuse being that they have to "maintain the balance"
they're actually quite kind and compassionate; their evil plans are specially engineered to never actually cause any life-threatening problems