"Let these people burn! Vido dies! WHATEVER THE COST!"
-Zaeed Massani
The second of the evil alignments, Neutral Evil characters are those who are out for their own personal gain and will cross any moral line to get it. Said personal gain tends to be along the lines of wealth/greed, or possibly revenge in some instances. Neutral Evil characters don't care if they happen to break the rules in the process of doing what they do, and also work within the bounds of the law and authority only for as long as it is convenient and/or beneficial to them. However by the same token they will not commit random violence and cruelty if they see no direct benefit to it and therefore do not just do evil for evil's sake, although notably some people's definitions of Neutral Evil disagree with me on that front. But either way for a Neutral Evil character, their personal goals come first, and while they again, won't usually do evil deeds out of pure sadism or pointless pleasure, they also don't have too many qualms about crossing moral lines and stabbing people in the back to get what they want. Long story short they look out only for number one.
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Source of the page quote. Easily one of Commander Shepard's darkest and most ethically lacking crew members, Zaeed shows just how self-centered he really is during his Loyalty Mission, where he proves to be quite agreeable to letting innocent people burn to death just to get some revenge. Paragon Shepard rightly calls him out on this.
Considering the dude's a pragmatic mercenary who is well-known for doing most anything anyone can think to ask of him so long as he gets paid, I'd say that's a yes. He is driven by coin and occasionally his own private agenda. Too bad nothing good ever comes of either one.
As kind of a Marvel equivalent to Deathstroke, this makes sense. Indeed, Taskmaster prides himself on being the most coldly professional of all of Marvel's main mercenaries, as opposed to others who are too emotional and prone to good (Silver Sable and Domino), TOO immoral and evil (Bullseye), or just too bloody crazy (Deadpool). So long story short, he's a selfish guy who will do bad things for money, but he's not entirely without restraint or a sense of pragmatism.
Official D&D books list him as an example of Lawful Evil, but I would say that's only with earlier EU depictions of him where he took jobs for the Empire and respected their authority because he had a twisted idea of order. More modern EU depictions however portray him as a more self-centered mercenary and bounty hunter who cares more about keeping his options open and making money than anything else. Not going around committing random, pointless cruelty, but no longer obsessed with order like he was in older EU stories. That's Neutral Evil. I'm pretty sure he's also shown that he's willing to turn on people if he gets a better offer, though that may not be consistent and instead vary depending on the writer. Either way, he did eventually grow out of this after becoming the new Mandalore.
"Like father like son" as the saying goes. In fact he fits this more consistently than his son does.
I could frankly make an argument for his being Chaotic Evil, but for now I'll list him as this. Either way though, he's much more evil than Jango Fett ever was, and that's saying something.
From what I've gathered she's a fairly amoral rogue who's backstabbed people plenty of times in the past, which in turn suggests her current alliance with the Sith is lasting only for as long as it is convenient and beneficial to her, which really does suggest Neutral Evil to me.
Given that he gets by being a corrupt member of the Republic military, a case could be made for his being Lawful rather than Neutral, but I feel that his being interested in profit and also having questionable loyalties to the military (also indulging in against-regulations behavior here and there), I feel he's more this in the end.
One of the ultimate crime lords and a slug both in appearance and nature.
In contrast to most Sith, who are Lawful Evil, Darth Maul I feel is more Neutral Evil, despite definitely still having some Lawful tendencies. And here's why: following his return he is most concerned with getting revenge on Obi-Wan and killing the Jedi, and outside of these goals that he will cross any moral line to achieve, he actually generally doesn't go out of his way to commit random violence and cruelty. No generally when Maul does something he has a reason for doing it. May not be a good reason, but he's nevertheless still a man with a clear-set goal in mind, one that he doesn't care if he happens to cross moral or legal boundaries to achieve. And that to me is Neutral Evil.