Tropescilloscope: Faux Affably Evil

A villain with a fake, mocking veneer of niceness that only highlights their monstrosity. (read more at tvtropes.org)

More Tropes Early Installment Weirdness The Stoic The Casanova Punny Name Eureka Moment Grievous Bottley Harm Riddle for the Ages The Reveal Darkest Hour Shut Up, Hannibal! Armor-Piercing Question Toplessness from the Back Lock and Load Montage The Oner Determinator For Want of a Nail Up to Eleven Bottomless Magazines Batman Gambit Hong Kong Films Market-Based Title "Where Are They Now?" Epilogue Anti-Hero Stock Footage Age Lift Bloodier and Gorier Taking You with Me Cain and Abel Narrator Stuff Blowing Up Here We Go Again! The Smart Guy Token Minority The Alcoholic Very Loosely Based on a True Story Leaning on the Fourth Wall Badass Bookworm Broken Bird Brutal Honesty Beard of Evil Chekhov's Gunman Scenery Gorn Affably Evil Well-Intentioned Extremist Spiritual Successor Country Matters Pre-Asskicking One-Liner Punch-Clock Villain Cloudcuckoolander Humiliation Conga I Need a Freaking Drink Call-Back Book-Ends Artistic License – Biology folderlabel Soundtrack Dissonance Novelization Vomit Indiscretion Shot Suspiciously Specific Denial Adaptational Attractiveness You Killed My Father Rape as Drama Evil-Detecting Dog And the Adventure Continues Male Frontal Nudity Arranged Marriage Amoral Attorney Author Appeal Rasputinian Death It's Personal Maybe Magic, Maybe Mundane Bavarian Fire Drill I Just Shot Marvin in the Face Conspicuous CG An Aesop Fatal Flaw All There in the Manual Bittersweet Ending Gilligan Cut Pun aka: Incredibly Lame Pun Ghost Fiction Extremely Short Timespan I Want My Beloved to Be Happy Sir Swears-a-Lot Totally Radical Children Are Innocent Shirtless Scene Plucky Comic Relief Adult Fear Everyone Has Standards What Happened to the Mouse? Implacable Man Retired Badass Mind Screw Hope Spot Corrupt Corporate Executive "Awesome McCool" Name Imagine Spot Defrosting Ice Queen Chewing the Scenery Jerk Jock Dark Is Not Evil Older Than They Look Framing Device Exactly What It Says on the Tin As You Know Fanservice Extra Berserk Button Black and Gray Morality Put on a Bus Retirony Immune to Bullets Captain Ersatz Air-Vent Passageway Ripped from the Headlines Ms. Fanservice I Did What I Had to Do Random Events Plot All Girls Want Bad Boys Henpecked Husband Fake Shemp Brick Joke Sadistic Choice Artistic License – Law Bowdlerise Red Right Hand The X of Y Femme Fatale Dumb Blonde Romantic False Lead Martial Arts Movie It Can Think Works Set in World War II Suddenly SHOUTING! Groin Attack Not Quite Dead Grey and Gray Morality Silence Is Golden And Starring Evil Cannot Comprehend Good Colour-Coded for Your Convenience aka: Color Coded For Your Convenience No Antagonist Small Name, Big Ego Even Bad Men Love Their Mamas All There in the Script Four-Temperament Ensemble Breaking the Fourth Wall Mood Whiplash Catapult Nightmare Stepford Smiler Music Stories Honor Before Reason The Chick Chuck Cunningham Syndrome Villainous Breakdown '80s Hair Take a Third Option Sliding Scale of Idealism vs. Cynicism Nice Hat Brainless Beauty Auto Erotica Cool Old Lady Back from the Dead Eyepatch of Power No Good Deed Goes Unpunished Heterosexual Life-Partners Even Evil Has Loved Ones Daylight Horror Important Haircut Not So Above It All Wounded Gazelle Gambit BFG Extreme Doormat Happily Married Darker and Edgier Fourth Date Marriage Red Oni, Blue Oni Jerkass Has a Point The Bad Guy Wins Screw the Rules, I'm Doing What's Right! Informed Ability May–December Romance Mad Scientist Plot Hole Karma Houdini The '80s Running Gag Abusive Parents Married to the Job Major Injury Underreaction I'm a Humanitarian Improbable Aiming Skills Historical Villain Upgrade Asshole Victim Villain Protagonist Bloodless Carnage Big-Bad Ensemble Historical Hero Upgrade Fantasy Films Off-into-the-Distance Ending Took a Level in Jerkass Dogged Nice Guy Film Noir Adults Are Useless Pretty in Mink The Voiceless Drowning My Sorrows Dissonant Serenity Red Herring Calling the Old Man Out The Starscream Motor Mouth Naïve Newcomer Paper-Thin Disguise Dramatic Gun Cock Green-Eyed Monster Evil Laugh Would Hit a Girl Crazy Jealous Guy Whole Plot Reference Once More, with Clarity! Red Eyes, Take Warning Lampshade Hanging Distracted by the Sexy Parental Abandonment Funny Background Event Vampire Fiction Cruel and Unusual Death Demoted to Extra Overprotective Dad Spared by the Adaptation Film Noir Index The '70s Jerk with a Heart of Gold Mercy Kill Genre Throwback Famous Last Words The Place Ass Shove British Films Needs Wiki Magic Love Skewed Priorities The '90s Laser-Guided Karma Chiaroscuro Translation Convention Ragtag Bunch of Misfits Parental Substitute Visual Pun Tap on the Head Not Using the "Z" Word Re-Cut Monumental Damage Bar Brawl Epic Movie Trailers Always Spoil Papa Wolf Bury Your Gays Flipping the Bird Anguished Declaration of Love Dirty Coward Homage The Musical Anachronism Stew Every Car Is a Pinto Irony Not So Stoic Leitmotif Those Two Bad Guys Race Against the Clock Costume Porn Dual Wielding Manly Tears Dies Wide Open Bad "Bad Acting" Daddy's Girl Handicapped Badass Earn Your Happy Ending Star-Crossed Lovers Fantastic Racism Tranquil Fury Ooh, Me Accent's Slipping Improbable Infant Survival aka: Infant Immortality Wicked Cultured Line-of-Sight Name Rule of Three Vomit Discretion Shot Pimped-Out Dress Roaring Rampage of Revenge Artistic License – Physics Disguised in Drag Adaptation Distillation Mythology Gag Everyone Calls Him "Barkeep" Adaptation Expansion The Lancer Big Eater Cowboy Cop Fish out of Water Alas, Poor Villain Friend to All Children Dutch Angle Wham Shot Historical In-Joke Sudden Sequel Death Syndrome True Companions Smug Snake Freeze-Frame Bonus Evil Sounds Deep The Brute Dwindling Party Love Triangle More Dakka Obstructive Bureaucrat Wham Line The Ace The Ditz Never Trust a Trailer Meaningful Background Event Worthy Opponent Arch-Enemy Villain with Good Publicity Large Ham Red Shirt Suspiciously Similar Substitute Anyone Can Die Pet the Dog Badass Longcoat Eiffel Tower Effect Fanservice Heroes Want Redheads Fire-Forged Friends Dark and Troubled Past Villain Opening Scene Russian Films Ugly Guy, Hot Wife Rule of Cool Nice Job Fixing It, Villain! Deus ex Machina Outrun the Fireball Contrived Coincidence Dark Reprise B-Movie The '50s Death Seeker Television Movie Index Rule of Funny Ironic Echo Offscreen Moment of Awesome Gainax Ending Badass in a Nice Suit How We Got Here Black Comedy Rape The Remake Death by Irony German Films Easily Forgiven Historical-Domain Character Beauty Is Never Tarnished Logo Joke The Power of Love Sanity Slippage Almost Kiss Roger Ebert: Great Movies List Accidental Misnaming Spell My Name with an "S" Action Genre Kids Are Cruel Woobie, Destroyer of Worlds Bond Villain Stupidity Setting Update In Medias Res Fun with Acronyms Rated M for Manly Dressing as the Enemy An Axe to Grind Mr. Exposition Victoria's Secret Compartment Adaptational Villainy Product Placement Ambiguous Disorder For the Evulz Retcon Evil Is Petty Bullying a Dragon Demonic Possession Diabolus ex Machina Your Cheating Heart Insistent Terminology Eldritch Abomination Fatal Family Photo Jitter Cam The End... Or Is It? Love at First Sight Adapted Out Establishing Character Moment Danny Peary Cult Movies List Facial Horror Break the Haughty Shown Their Work Deconstruction The Atoner Captain Obvious Drives Like Crazy Ominous Latin Chanting Hypocritical Humor Loophole Abuse The Smurfette Principle Evil Plan Attempted Rape Naked People Are Funny Credits Gag Funny Foreigner Black Dude Dies First An Arm and a Leg Break the Cutie Slasher Movie Unwitting Instigator of Doom Manchild Five-Man Band Final Girl Cat Fight Empathic Environment Adaptational Heroism Disproportionate Retribution Dirty Cop Intrepid Reporter The Dreaded Does Not Like Shoes Sacrificial Lion Card-Carrying Villain No Ending Those Two Guys Face Death with Dignity Genre Savvy Closed Circle Hypocrite 20 Minutes into the Future Not So Different Would Hurt a Child Wrong Genre Savvy Get Out! Only Known by Their Nickname Affectionate Parody Evil Is Hammy Gold Digger Bitch in Sheep's Clothing Bad Boss Not Even Bothering with the Accent Heel–Face Turn In the Back Dark Action Girl Chase Scene Nice Guy Girl-on-Girl Is Hot Dull Surprise Accidental Murder Twist Ending Revenge Together in Death Actor Allusion Vacation Films Half the Man He Used to Be Mighty Whitey Make It Look Like an Accident No-Sell Video Credits Only in It for the Money Recycled IN SPACE! Action Prologue The Mole Training Montage One Steve Limit Never Found the Body Obviously Evil Despair Event Horizon Psychological Thriller Composite Character Bolivian Army Ending All for Nothing Laughing Mad Serious Business NO INDOOR VOICE Those Wacky Nazis A Date with Rosie Palms Adorkable Toilet Humour aka: Toilet Humor Department of Redundancy Department Drill Sergeant Nasty Crouching Moron, Hidden Badass Morality Pet Depraved Bisexual Ungrateful Bastard Creepy Child Evil vs. Evil No Name Given Intergenerational Friendship Does This Remind You of Anything? Downer Ending Meaningful Echo Yandere Oh, Crap! Why Don't You Just Shoot Him? Damsel in Distress Film Series Deal with the Devil Evil Brit Index of Film Westerns Deliberately Monochrome Action Girl Call-Forward Hair-Trigger Temper Genre Shift Superhero Noodle Incident Serial Killer Reality Ensues Ax-Crazy Hooker with a Heart of Gold Comically Missing the Point Overly Long Gag Disney Villain Death Truth in Television Pre-Mortem One-Liner Shower Scene Blood Knight Took a Level in Badass Malevolent Masked Men Insane Troll Logic Antagonist Title Celebrity Paradox Madness Mantra Character Development Aluminum Christmas Trees This Is Gonna Suck Leave the Camera Running Playing Gertrude Cool Car Stylistic Suck No Celebrities Were Harmed Heel Realization One-Man Army Babies Ever After Authority Equals Asskicking Properly Paranoid No OSHA Compliance Epic Fail Villain Ball Bring My Brown Pants Big "NO!" Taking the Bullet Hollywood Law Big Brother Instinct Your Head A-Splode Killed Mid-Sentence The Lost Lenore My Beloved Smother The '60s Tagline Shoot the Shaggy Dog Slap-Slap-Kiss Unusual Euphemism Interrupted Suicide Japanese Films Wretched Hive Off with His Head! Unresolved Sexual Tension Big Damn Heroes Redemption Equals Death Knight Templar Impaled with Extreme Prejudice Adaptational Badass Dirty Old Man Did Not Get the Girl Crucified Hero Shot Peek-a-Boo Corpse Made of Iron Casting Gag Drugs Are Bad Determinator aka: The Determinator Ambiguous Ending La Résistance The Stoner The Big Guy Expy There Is No Kill Like Overkill Match Cut Improvised Weapon Foregone Conclusion N-Word Privileges Hero of Another Story Ascended Extra Animated Credits Opening Posthumous Character Foil My God, What Have I Done? Kill 'em All Reality Has No Subtitles Domestic Abuse timeperiod Stealth Pun Apocalypse How Butt-Monkey Sci-Fi Horror Badass Grandpa Straight Gay The Faceless Getting Crap Past the Radar Disney Death Not What It Looks Like Dramatic Irony Redshirt Army Obfuscating Stupidity The Vamp Our Vampires Are Different Double Entendre Curb-Stomp Battle Screw the Rules, I Have Money! You Have Got to Be Kidding Me! Gory Discretion Shot Alpha Bitch Never My Fault Anachronic Order Imperial Stormtrooper Marksmanship Academy Bound and Gagged Be Careful What You Wish For Eagleland Manipulative Bastard Ambiguously Gay Death of a Child You Have Outlived Your Usefulness Death by Adaptation Shout-Out Parental Incest The Mafia Frame-Up Really Gets Around Insult Backfire Badass Boast Belligerent Sexual Tension Hate Sink Exact Words Horror Comedy Idiot Ball Spiteful Spit Unspoken Plan Guarantee The Load Cool Old Guy Take That! Big Bad Cool Guns Faux Affably Evil Blatant Lies What You Are in the Dark Say My Name Slashed Throat Documentary Hair of Gold, Heart of Gold Ship Tease Poor Communication Kills Even Evil Has Standards Face–Heel Turn Guile Hero Time Skip Kill It with Fire Bond One-Liner Unusually Uninteresting Sight Cassandra Truth Blood from the Mouth Death Glare Rich Bitch Humans Are Bastards Mugging the Monster Sinister Minister Artistic License – Geography Public Domain Feature Films Mexican Standoff Karmic Death Precision F-Strike Agony of the Feet Continuity Nod MacGuffin Rape Is a Special Kind of Evil Eye Scream War Is Hell Combat Pragmatist Actually Pretty Funny Sole Survivor Neck Snap Maybe Ever After Hell Is That Noise Pretty Little Headshots Kick the Dog French Films He Knows Too Much Becoming the Mask Anti-Villain Psycho for Hire The Dog Bites Back Decoy Protagonist Mama Bear Only Sane Man She's Got Legs Dying Moment of Awesome Kubrick Stare Sports Stories Screw This, I'm Outta Here! Fat Bastard Throwing Your Sword Always Works Gender Flip Show Within a Show Our Zombies Are Different Brother–Sister Incest Blackmail The Sociopath Gone Horribly Right Destination Defenestration Stalker with a Crush Vitriolic Best Buds The Quiet One Reality Is Unrealistic Silent Movie Improbable Weapon User Knife Nut Bait-and-Switch Moment Killer Pragmatic Adaptation Cool Shades Didn't Think This Through O.O.C. Is Serious Business And I Must Scream Developing Doomed Characters Camp Gay Only a Flesh Wound Annoying Younger Sibling Boom, Headshot! Mystery and Detective Films Offscreen Teleportation Creator Cameo Gratuitous English Enemy Mine Coming-of-Age Story Double-Meaning Title Shipper on Deck Car Fu One-Word Title Body Horror Betty and Veronica Arc Words Instant Death Bullet Stealth Hi/Bye Chekhov's Gun Mundane Made Awesome Creative Closing Credits Dramedy Last-Name Basis Due to the Dead Real Life Writes the Plot Pyrrhic Victory All Just a Dream Meet Cute The Dragon Artistic License – Military Based on a True Story Spanner in the Works After the End The Hero Dies Action Survivor Deliberate Values Dissonance Canon Foreigner Nice Job Breaking It, Hero! The Cavalry Fainting Reckless Gun Usage Author Avatar Zombie Stories Parental Neglect Self-Deprecation Alliterative Name Crapsack World Beware the Nice Ones Unreliable Narrator Men Are the Expendable Gender Police are Useless Military and Warfare Films Artistic License – History Disappeared Dad The Great Depression Failed a Spot Check A God Am I Guns Akimbo You Have Failed Me Death by Sex Flashback Award-Bait Song No-Holds-Barred Beatdown Canadian Movies A.I. Is a Crapshoot Broken Aesop Fate Worse than Death Rule of Symbolism Shell-Shocked Veteran Cat Scare Storming the Castle A Minor Kidroduction Better to Die than Be Killed Big Fancy House Left the Background Music On Woman in White Bare Your Midriff Reasonable Authority Figure Jump Scare Italian Films Super Strength He Who Fights Monsters Mooks Foreshadowing The Hero Expository Hairstyle Change Sexy Discretion Shot Cold-Blooded Torture Advertised Extra Sealed Evil in a Can Title Drop Have a Gay Old Time Adaptation Dye-Job Crazy-Prepared Scary Black Man Jerkass Undying Loyalty Bunny-Ears Lawyer Bland-Name Product Sassy Black Woman The Un-Favourite aka: The Un Favorite The Alleged Car Australian Movies Blonde, Brunette, Redhead Woman Scorned Artistic License – Gun Safety Aside Glance Race Lift Big Bad Duumvirate World of Ham Sequel Hook Tempting Fate Fingore Bloody Hilarious Politically Incorrect Villain Bi the Way Never Trust a Trailer aka: Trailers Always Lie As the Good Book Says... Early-Bird Cameo Nothing Is Scarier Hoist by His Own Petard All Men Are Perverts Biopic Refuge in Audacity Non-Indicative Name The Un-Reveal Only One Name Police Brutality Beta Couple Abhorrent Admirer A Father to His Men It Will Never Catch On Curse Cut Short From Bad to Worse Lighter and Softer "Shaggy Dog" Story Manic Pixie Dream Girl From Nobody to Nightmare Dropped a Bridge on Him Amusing Injuries Horror Doesn't Settle for Simple Tuesday Broken Pedestal Badass Normal Greater-Scope Villain In Name Only Central Theme The Chessmaster The Ghost Covers Always Lie Loads and Loads of Characters Evil Counterpart Black Comedy Soft Glass My Greatest Failure Jack Bauer Interrogation Technique Chekhov's Skill Corpsing Gorn Neck Lift What the Hell, Hero? Slasher Smile Heroic BSoD Awesome, but Impractical Hero Antagonist The Film of the Book Names to Run Away from Really Fast Same Language Dub Black Best Friend Pragmatic Villainy Missing Mom Recap / RiffTrax aka: Riff Trax Movies She Cleans Up Nicely Hidden Depths Romantic Comedy Kick the Son of a Bitch Man on Fire Why Did It Have to Be Snakes? Thriller Made of Explodium Protagonist Title Meaningful Name Psychopathic Manchild Mistaken for Gay Driven to Suicide Faking the Dead "Well Done, Son!" Guy Sir Not-Appearing-in-This-Trailer The Cameo Freudian Excuse Pay Evil unto Evil Rewatch Bonus Light Is Not Good Big Applesauce Word of God Bald of Evil Deadpan Snarker Male Gaze Animal Motifs Camera Abuse Villain Song Fiery Redhead Christmas Movies Index Screw the Money, I Have Rules! Bilingual Bonus Fan Disservice Smoking Is Cool Scenery Porn Horror Films As Long as It Sounds Foreign Arson, Murder, and Jaywalking Aww, Look! They Really Do Love Each Other "The Reason You Suck" Speech Action Film, Quiet Drama Scene The Stinger I Have Your Wife Let's Get Dangerous! Rousing Speech Adaptation Name Change Catch-Phrase Punctuated! For! Emphasis! Defiant to the End Sequel Escalation Animal Title Index Mr. Fanservice Good Is Not Nice As Himself Too Dumb to Live Real Life Room Full of Crazy Cluster F-Bomb The Bully Scare Chord Hollywood Darkness Science Fiction Films Heroic Sacrifice It's All About Me