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