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