Tropescilloscope: Faux Affably Evil

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

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