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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Too Dumb to Live Same Language Dub Screw the Money, I Have Rules! 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Armor-Piercing Question Beta Couple Horror Films Arch-Enemy Lampshade Hanging Hypocritical Humor Anguished Declaration of Love Fanservice Extra The Dreaded Alliterative Name Shown Their Work Determinator Offscreen Teleportation Break the Haughty The Smart Guy Actually Pretty Funny Japanese Films Adults Are Useless Names to Run Away from Really Fast Ascended Extra Crapsack World Ragtag Bunch of Misfits Author Appeal Light Is Not Good Parental Incest Knife Nut Well-Intentioned Extremist Evil Sounds Deep Villain with Good Publicity Show Within a Show Eldritch Abomination Girl-on-Girl Is Hot Papa Wolf Actor Allusion Manchild Becoming the Mask Make It Look Like an Accident Creepy Child Stealth Pun Refuge in Audacity Meaningful Echo Sanity Slippage Noodle Incident Unusual Euphemism Video Credits Artistic License – Geography There Is No Kill Like Overkill Cowboy Cop Needs Wiki Magic Love The Power of Love Breaking the Fourth Wall Properly Paranoid Psychological Thriller Kick the Son of a Bitch Ms. Fanservice Insult Backfire Beauty Is Never Tarnished The Starscream Camera Abuse For the Evulz NO INDOOR VOICE Eye Scream Recycled IN SPACE! Dark Reprise Mama Bear Boom, Headshot! Depraved Bisexual Adaptational Attractiveness Children Are Innocent Berserk Button Catapult Nightmare Hoist by His Own Petard Tranquil Fury Get Out! Straight Gay Ass Shove Sadistic Choice Tap on the Head Politically Incorrect Villain Science Fiction Films Suddenly SHOUTING! Authority Equals Asskicking Amoral Attorney Whole Plot Reference And I Must Scream Badass Longcoat Madness Mantra The Cameo Training Montage Adaptation Dye-Job Ooh, Me Accent's Slipping Beware the Nice Ones Anachronism Stew Affably Evil "Shaggy Dog" Story Demoted to Extra Death Glare Frame-Up You Have Outlived Your Usefulness Made of Iron Crouching Moron, Hidden Badass Evil Is Petty Establishing Character Moment No Good Deed Goes Unpunished Captain Ersatz No-Sell Drives Like Crazy Even Evil Has Standards Pun aka: Incredibly Lame Pun Stock Footage Butt-Monkey Blatant Lies Karma Houdini folderlabel Hollywood Law Cluster F-Bomb Anti-Hero All Just a Dream Scenery Porn Good Is Not Nice The Quiet One Nice Job Breaking It, Hero! Bottomless Magazines Red Shirt 20 Minutes into the Future The Cavalry Crazy-Prepared Auto Erotica Fun with Acronyms Crazy Jealous Guy Bring My Brown Pants Credits Gag The Mafia Action Genre Accidental Murder Comically Missing the Point Death Seeker Foil The Stinger Tempting Fate All for Nothing Outrun the Fireball The Lost Lenore Protagonist Title Punctuated! For! Emphasis! Horror Comedy Historical Villain Upgrade Heterosexual Life-Partners And Starring Affectionate Parody Double-Meaning Title Sports Stories Driven to Suicide Black Best Friend Evil Is Hammy Daddy's Girl Our Vampires Are Different Red Herring Killed Mid-Sentence Neck Snap Mistaken for Gay Domestic Abuse Riddle for the Ages Betty and Veronica Stalker with a Crush Ironic Echo Slasher Movie Heroic BSoD Double Entendre Decoy Protagonist Hair-Trigger Temper Recap / RiffTrax aka: Riff Trax Movies Star-Crossed Lovers Loophole Abuse German Films Everyone Has Standards Line-of-Sight Name Batman Gambit Left the Background Music On Unwitting Instigator of Doom The Brute Department of Redundancy Department Overly Long Gag Thriller Fiery Redhead Big "NO!" Setting Update Works Set in World War II Disappeared Dad Darkest Hour Intergenerational Friendship The End... Or Is It? Aww, Look! They Really Do Love Each Other The Stoner Artistic License – Physics Bury Your Gays Shower Scene Reality Is Unrealistic Sliding Scale of Idealism vs. Cynicism Badass Boast Call-Forward Villain Opening Scene Evil vs. Evil Spiteful Spit Enemy Mine Hair of Gold, Heart of Gold Big Brother Instinct Chewing the Scenery Ambiguously Gay Groin Attack Corrupt Corporate Executive Expy Not Using the "Z" Word Hong Kong Films The Atoner La Résistance Not So Above It All Fish out of Water Product Placement Deus ex Machina Nice Job Fixing It, Villain! The Un-Reveal Hell Is That Noise Flipping the Bird Attempted Rape Slashed Throat Author Avatar Vomit Indiscretion Shot Novelization Very Loosely Based on a True Story Not Even Bothering with the Accent Earn Your Happy Ending Film Series Australian Movies Does This Remind You of Anything? My God, What Have I Done? Let's Get Dangerous! Corpsing Deliberate Values Dissonance Token Minority Kubrick Stare Spiritual Successor Character Development Bilingual Bonus Arranged Marriage Badass in a Nice Suit Mercy Kill Ominous Latin Chanting Big-Bad Ensemble Dirty Coward Early-Bird Cameo He Knows Too Much Screw This, I'm Outta Here! Beard of Evil Idiot Ball Genre Shift From Nobody to Nightmare "Well Done, Son!" Guy Faux Affably Evil Nothing Is Scarier Broken Aesop My Greatest Failure Death by Irony Vampire Fiction The Dragon Would Hurt a Child Extremely Short Timespan Action Prologue Man on Fire Getting Crap Past the Radar Half the Man He Used to Be Reality Ensues The Ghost Four-Temperament Ensemble In the Back Malevolent Masked Men Punch-Clock Villain From Bad to Worse Posthumous Character Manic Pixie Dream Girl O.O.C. Is Serious Business Despair Event Horizon Dull Surprise Badass Grandpa Adorkable Defrosting Ice Queen Brick Joke Race Lift Action Film, Quiet Drama Scene Random Events Plot I Have Your Wife Only Sane Man Bowdlerise The Alcoholic Bad Boss Those Two Guys Irony Cool Guns Historical In-Joke Redemption Equals Death Knight Templar Pretty in Mink Jerkass Maybe Magic, Maybe Mundane Loads and Loads of Characters Be Careful What You Wish For Dual Wielding All There in the Manual Spanner in the Works Bunny-Ears Lawyer Chekhov's Gun The Ditz Non-Indicative Name No-Holds-Barred Beatdown Reasonable Authority Figure Love Triangle Failed a Spot Check Sole Survivor Mad Scientist Public Domain Feature Films Only One Name Expository Hairstyle Change I'm a Humanitarian Scare Chord Brainless Beauty Black Dude Dies First The Alleged Car Darker and Edgier Important Haircut She Cleans Up Nicely Broken Pedestal A Minor Kidroduction Heel–Face Turn Adult Fear Anti-Villain Demonic Possession Curse Cut Short Foregone Conclusion An Axe to Grind Adapted Out No Celebrities Were Harmed Funny Foreigner Faking the Dead Villain Song Italian Films It Will Never Catch On MacGuffin Brother–Sister Incest The Stoic Never My Fault I Want My Beloved to Be Happy Even Evil Has Loved Ones Twist Ending I Did What I Had to Do Colour-Coded for Your Convenience aka: Color Coded For Your Convenience Dramatic Gun Cock Jerkass Has a Point Love at First Sight Precision F-Strike Plot Hole The '80s Ripped from the Headlines "Awesome McCool" Name Blood Knight Cool Shades The Bad Guy Wins Genre Throwback Drill Sergeant Nasty Film Noir Index Adaptational Heroism Asshole Victim Artistic License – Military "The Reason You Suck" Speech Foreshadowing Male Gaze More Dakka Face Death with Dignity Smug Snake Not What It Looks Like Rule of Symbolism Last-Name Basis Peek-a-Boo Corpse Wicked Cultured Even Bad Men Love Their Mamas "Where Are They Now?" Epilogue Destination Defenestration Mugging the Monster Mr. Exposition Dropped a Bridge on Him Imagine Spot Blonde, Brunette, Redhead Pet the Dog Large Ham Woman Scorned Woobie, Destroyer of Worlds Time Skip Pre-Asskicking One-Liner He Who Fights Monsters timeperiod Rich Bitch Death by Sex Would Hit a Girl Small Name, Big Ego I Just Shot Marvin in the Face Didn't Think This Through Improbable Weapon User Room Full of Crazy Fate Worse than Death Christmas Movies Index Spared by the Adaptation No Antagonist Framing Device Almost Kiss What You Are in the Dark Nice Hat Dying Moment of Awesome The Chessmaster Re-Cut Ugly Guy, Hot Wife The Hero I Need a Freaking Drink Narrator Soundtrack Dissonance Police Brutality Screw the Rules, I Have Money! Dirty Cop Bi the Way Early Installment Weirdness Casting Gag