"Me? I'm dishonest. And a dishonest man you can always trust to be dishonest. Honestly. It's the honest ones you need to worry about. Because you can never predict when they're going to do something incredibly...stupid"
-Jack Sparrow
The wild cards. Chaotic Neutral characters are those who do whatever they please, are led by whims, and are oftentimes incredibly mercurial. They do whatever they want, whenever they want, but are sufficiently restrained that they are not nihilists or straight-up evil. Chaotic Neutral characters may do good one moment, and then perform a roguish deed (such as stealing) the next. They may help the heroes purely on a whim, only to later aid the villains to further their own agenda, and then go back to helping the heroes again. Simply put, Chaotic Neutral characters usually can’t be counted on to be consistent. They follow their own rules and only their own, having no use for the laws and regulations of authority.
Besides the above though, there are also other Chaotic Neutral characters who are not mercurial people that do random things on a whim, but still operate outside of authority and are also too morally gray to be definitively good or evil. Examples of this would include a brutal outlaw vigilante who goes a bit too far fighting evil/crime, or a well-meaning anarchist that goes too far when fighting a corrupt authority.
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Source of the page quote and one of the very best examples of this alignment ever, being a lovable rogue whose led completely by whims and more often than not self-interest.
Arguably even moreso than good ol' Jack Sparrow this dude is the personification of this alignment, being a completely irreverent and mercurial goofball who constantly bounces back and forth between being good, bad, and everything in-between and regularly does whatever comes to mind, including shooting himself in the head (don't worry, he can't die from that).
Usually defaults to this, as Godzilla is often portrayed as a morally ambiguous and destructive anti-hero who despite his misanthropy and capacity for destruction usually ends up saving the world from even worse threats like Ghidorah, Gigan, and Destoroyah.
Long ago established that she could be an anti-hero or a charismatic and honorable anti-villain depending on her mood and the crisis at hand. Her mercurial nature is also acknowledged in-universe from time to time, and in her own words her life is all shades of gray. Having said that, in her more clearly heroic depictions she begins to transition to Chaotic Good. Usually though she fits this to a T.
As Marvel's answer to Catwoman, this isn't at all surprising. And in fact she fits this alignment more consistently than Catwoman herself does.
In his younger, pre-Agent Venom years.
Prior to becoming the Scarlet Spider Kaine was more this alignment on the account of being a very ethically sketchy Anti-Hero who killed villains and criminals and regularly antagonized Spider-Man and Ben Reilly.
I'd assume so given that she's an opposite-gender knock-off of one of the best examples of Chaotic Neutral around.
While most would say the Hulk is a good guy, there are many times in the character's history when he has done less than admirable things, and it is this mercurial and unpredictable nature that makes the jade green giant more this a lot of the time, though some writers do of course have him lean more heavily towards the good end of the spectrum.
And now one of those brutal outlaw vigilantes I mentioned above. The Punisher is a brutal and merciless killing machine and executioner of criminals. He operates outside the law and is in fact highly contemptuous of it, and though he makes a point of not fighting the cops he won't let them stop him either. Or the heroes for that matter. Punisher is ultimately a man hell-bent on eradicating crime in the most brutal way possible, and it is this moral ambiguity that makes him Chaotic Neutral rather than Chaotic Good.