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