History FauxAffablyEvil / AnimatedFilms

[[caption-width-right:350:A subversion of YouDirtyRat, Jenner is not.]]

* ''WesternAnimation/TheSuperMarioBrosMovie'': Bowser sometimes acts courteously to his enemies, but absolutely none of it is genuine. It really is all a mere façade that he uses in order to try and hide his true sadism and depravity. Once he drops the act, he's an unhinged, cruel, and monstrous sociopath who is hellbent on making everyone around him suffer as much as possible with absolutely [[LackOfEmpathy zero remorse]]. Probably the best example is when Peach refuses his declaration of marriage at the altar.

* ''WesternAnimation/TheSuperMarioBrosMovie'': Bowser sometimes acts courteously to his enemies, but none of it is genuine. It really is all a mere façade that he uses in order to try and hide his true sadism and depravity. Once he drops the act, he's an unhinged, cruel, and monstrous sociopath who is hellbent on making everyone around him suffer as much as possible with absolutely [[LackOfEmpathy zero remorse]]. Probably the best example is when Peach refuses his declaration of marriage at the altar.

* ''WesternAnimation/TheSuperMarioBrosMovie'': Bowser sometimes acts courteously to his enemies, but it really is all a mere façade that he uses in order to try and hide his true sadism and depravity. Once he drops the act, he's an unhinged, cruel, and monstrous sociopath who is hellbent on making everyone around him suffer as much as possible with absolutely [[LackOfEmpathy zero remorse]]. Probably the best example is when Peach refuses his declaration of marriage at the altar.

* ''WesternAnimation/TheSuperMarioBrosMovie'': Bowser sometimes acts courteously to his enemies, but it really is all a mere facade that he uses in order to try and hide his true sadism and depravity. Once he drops the act, he's an unhinged, cruel, and monstrous sociopath who is hellbent on making everyone around him suffer as much as possible with absolutely [[LackOfEmpathy zero remorse]]. Probably the best example is when Peach refuses his declaration of marriage at the altar.

** When Kubo meets his grandfather the Moon King from ''WesternAnimation/KuboAndTheTwoStrings'', he comes to Kubo through a dream, acting as a thoughtful elderly man who leads him to his father's helmet [[spoiler:when really he is leading him to a trap where the remaining Sister is waiting for them]]. When they meet face to face, the Moon King tries to talk Kubo into giving up his remaining eye and living with him in the Heavens. As their conversation goes on, the Moon King's [[MoodSwinger mood shifts]] between jubilation of his own magnificence to disgust at the mortal realm and anger toward Kubo's defiance, signs of [[MadGod madness]] evident in the way he hunches and cackles as he does. After a while, he takes Kubo's defiance as a definite and drops all pretense, transforming into a monster with intentions of torturing and killing him to teach him a lesson.

** His wife Charlene-2 acts like a sympathetic matriarch, but is just as bad as he is. She was accountable for turning the second dimension O.W.C.A animal agents into ruthless cyborgs to enforce the family reign. She even planned on turning Phineas-2, Candace-2 and Ferb-2 into cyborgs after tricking them into freeing her husband.

** ''WesternAnimation/CorpseBride'': Barkis attempts to make himself presentable and tries to put on a charmingly courteous demeanor in order to wed Victoria. Even though it is clear to viewers that his intentions are no good.

* Nigel, the sadistic DragonInChief in ''WesternAnimation/{{Rio}}''. He rarely outright insults someone, and tends to talk in a calm, friendly manner...while relishing in his villainy and "convincing" someone to be his {{Mook}} by dropping them from several hundred feet.

** ''WesternAnimation/TheBadGuys'': [[spoiler:Professor Marmalade is an all-loving philanthropist in public, and even then he's very smug and condescending without any real shame. It's not until he tries to frame the Bad Guys for his heist of the meteorite -- and doesn't hide it enough in front of [[EleventhHourRanger Diane]] -- that it ever breaks, and by then, he's too far gone to hide it anymore.]]

* ''WesternAnimation/TheLorax'': O'Hare speaks in a chummy tone that barely masks his greed and paranoia, before snapping at Ted and telling him not to get in his way.

** Ursula from ''WesternAnimation/TheLittleMermaid1989'' acts generous and sympathetic while offering contracts to her victims. By the time they realized they have been fooled, it is too late.

** Lotso, from ''WesternAnimation/ToyStory3'', pretends to be gregarious to the toys at first, only revealing his real wicked nature later.

** ''Franchise/ToyStory'':
*** [[spoiler: Stinky Pete]] from ''WesternAnimation/ToyStory2'' acted in a grandfather-like manner to Woody, but that was just a facade to hide his bitterness and loathing of kids and space toys.
*** Lotso, from ''WesternAnimation/ToyStory3'', pretends to be gregarious to the toys at first, only revealing his real wicked nature later.

** ''WesternAnimation/ToyStory'':

** The Coachman from ''WesternAnimation/{{Pinocchio}}'' pretends to be a nice old man who wants kids to have a good time without any responsibilities, when in reality he's setting a trap for them by lacing their beer with a substance that turns them into donkeys, which he then sells into hard labor for profit, while the ones who are still able to talk are kept on the island, presumably to pull his coach.

** ''WesternAnimation/{{Cinderella}}'': Lady Tremaine. She doesn't often raise her voice and can seem quite pleasant, but she loves the use of ExactWords and is a ManipulativeBitch when it comes to setting her daughters on Cinderella.

** ''WesternAnimation/AliceInWonderland'': The Queen of Hearts likes to pretend that she's polite, lecturing Alice on manners to try to get her to be a graceful lady while speaking to her in a soft voice and addressing her as "my dear". At the same time, she is a psychopath with a HairTriggerTemper who suffers from severe mood swings, ordering people beheaded for the most trivial reasons. While she does act polite, the façade falls apart whenever anything goes wrong for her, and she becomes a shouting tyrant.
** Ursula from ''WesternAnimation/TheLittleMermaid1989'' acts kind and empathetic when offering contracts to her victims. By the time they realized they've been fooled, it's too late.
** ''WesternAnimation/OneHundredAndOneDalmatians'': Cruella de Vil is able to act nice when the situation calls for it, but it's plainly obvious that her intentions are not good. When her plans get derailed, she drops the act and becomes downright terrifying.

*** Shere Khan has a mock gentleman personality, speaking politely with Kaa while not so subtly threatening him. When he meets Mowgli, he mockingly gives him a 10 second head start because "that makes the chase more interesting... for me."
*** Kaa acts very polite to Mowgli, but this is only to lure him into a false sense of security before eating him.

** The Sheriff of Nottingham in ''WesternAnimation/RobinHood1973'' is quite cheerful and polite on the surface, but it's just to toy with people. He'll take from the church's poor box, a blind beggar's cup, or a ''crying child's birthday present'', and he'll enjoy every rotten moment of it -- all the while asserting in his folksy Southern accent that Prince John sends his best regards.
** ''WesternAnimation/TheRescuers'': Percival C. [=McLeach=] acts superficially friendly, but he's nothing more than a brutal thug who doesn't care who he hurts in his pursuit of Marahute.
** ''WesternAnimation/TheGreatMouseDetective'': Ratigan. This is ultimately one of the things, as mentioned above, that makes his VillainousBreakdown all the more terrifying; he puts up a slick and suave exterior, but we occasionally see hints of his feral nature kept just under control...until the final showdown.

** ''WesternAnimation/{{Aladdin}}'': Jafar in most of his appearances in the first half of the movie. Sure he may have been calm and polite toward Jasmine and the Sultan, but it was only because he had to be in so to cover his true motives, not to mention as while polite to their faces (while still being quite manipulative) he was clearly shown to drop the demeanor whenever not in their presence. It's half the reason fans love him.
** ''WesternAnimation/TheLionKing1994'': Scar acts like a kindly uncle towards Simba while secretly plotting his and Mufasa's deaths.
** ''WesternAnimation/SnowWhiteAndTheSevenDwarfs'': Grimhilde is this when she disguises herself as a peddler, acting like a sweet old granny while trying to poison Snow White.
** Shan-Yu from ''WesternAnimation/{{Mulan}}'', depending on how you take his mild tone of voice. When the Huns catch two Imperial scouts, he kneels down and adjusts one of their scarves and compliments them for finding the Hun Army. He even lets them go, to tell the Emperor he's coming. And then has one of them shot InTheBack. Also when he says that they should go through the village to 'return' a doll to a little girl.

** ''WesternAnimation/TheHunchbackOfNotreDameDisney'' has Claude Frollo, who affects a caring demeanor towards Quasimodo, acting as though his exile in the belltower is a kindness, saving him from the cruelties of the outside world.
** ''WesternAnimation/{{Hercules}}'' has Hades as its Faux Affably Evil BigBad. He talks like a [[HonestJohnsDealership used car salesman]] and makes wisecracks while screwing over everyone as much as possible. That being said, outside of his source material, he acts more AffablyEvil instead in comparison to the other Disney villains, particularly in ''Mickey's WesternAnimation/HouseOfMouse''.

** Bradley Uppercrust III from ''WesternAnimation/AnExtremelyGoofyMovie''. He's polite to team prospects (though passive-aggressive to non-prospects and others) but never means any of it. He's ruthless enough to [[spoiler: deliberately endanger his opponents and leave his own right hand man to die.]]

** ''WesternAnimation/WreckItRalph'': [[spoiler:King Candy]]. Oh, [[spoiler:King Candy]]. At first glance, [[spoiler:this little Mad Hatter knockoff seems about as harmful as a cube of taffy]]. But it becomes slowly clear that he's infinitely more malicious than he lets on. [[spoiler: It also helps that he's an excellent liar, and savvy enough to have everyone, up to and including the audience, eating out of his palm.]]
** ''WesternAnimation/Frozen2013'': [[spoiler:Prince Hans]], as part of his status as TheSociopath. Again, he's good enough to fool ''the viewer''. [[spoiler:His role throughout the film is posing as a caring love interest and heroic PrinceCharming figure to nearly everyone he interacts with, but it's all a [[VillainWithGoodPublicity facade to gain good publicity on Arendelle]] and build a close relationship with Anna. When he no longer needs to, he shows himself as a smug, confident, and ambitious individual who not only [[KickTheDog rubs it in her face]], but is able to feign grief for her at the drop of a hat when he tells the other dignitaries that Anna has died]].

** ''WesternAnimation/{{Moana}}'': Tamatoa the [[GiantEnemyCrab crab monster]]. He acts goofy and happily starts singing a very upbeat GlamRock VillainSong to Moana, then tries to eat her in the middle of it before delivering a savage beating to Maui.

** Rumpelstiltskin in ''WesternAnimation/ShrekForeverAfter''. Right up until his victims sign the [[DealWithTheDevil Deal With The Devil]], he is all politeness and sweet talk. Then he laughs manically at their doomed fate.
** ''WesternAnimation/KungFuPanda2'': Lord Shen is very pleasant and polite to his enemies, but he doesn't even attempt to hide that he is a violent monster. When his foes don't heed any of his warnings, he stops the threatening formalities and quickly proceeds to blow anyone up who opposes him.

* ''WesternAnimation/IceAgeContinentalDrift'': Captain Gutt is quite jovial and can come across as polite in a few scenes, but the charm does little to disguise the bloodthirsty, selfish pirate he truly is. In his very first scene, he claims he's "here to help", but then tosses one of the rats on his ship overboard and sadistically taunts Manny over his family.

** ''WesternAnimation/CorpseBride'': Barkis attempts to make himself presentable and tries to put on a charmingly polite demeanor in order to wed Victoria. Even though it's clear to viewers that his intentions are no good.
** The Other Mother from ''WesternAnimation/{{Coraline}}'' acts under the facade of a doting, loving, fun parent as a means of luring unsuspecting children. She recreates the Pink Palace and improves them, creating denizens and wonders that makes her world seem more appealing for the children before she traps them by sewing buttons into their eyes, holding their souls hostage. When Coraline rebels, she developed a GlamourFailure, her appearance becoming more exaggerated and monstrous as the film goes on and ''doing'' more twisted and inhumane things, all while behaving as if nothing has changed.

** When Kubo meets his grandfather the Moon King from ''WesternAnimation/KuboAndTheTwoStrings'', he comes to Kubo through a dream, acting as a kind old man who leads him to his father's helmet [[spoiler:when really he is leading him to a trap where the remaining Sister is waiting for them]]. When they meet face to face, the Moon King tries to talk Kubo into giving up his remaining eye and living with him in the Heavens. As their conversation goes on, the Moon King's [[MoodSwinger mood shifts]] between jubilation of his own magnificence to disgust at the mortal realm and anger toward Kubo's defiance, signs of [[MadGod madness]] evident in the way he hunches and cackles as he does. After a while, he takes Kubo's defiance as a definite and drops all pretense, transforming into a monster with intentions of torturing and killing him to teach him a lesson.

* ''WesternAnimation/MyLittlePonyTheMovie2017'': The Storm King is very goofy and LaughablyEvil, and he can be rather chill and laid back, but he's still a ruthless, power mad tyrant who wants to TakeOverTheWorld and is quick to pull a YouHaveOutlivedYourUsefulness on his second in command. Also, any benevolence he shows his army isn't genuine, but merely PragmaticVillainy to keep them content and loyal to him.

* ''WesternAnimation/PhineasAndFerbTheMovieAcrossThe2ndDimension'': Doof-2 first appears to be AffablyEvil like his main universe counterpart, but quickly proves to be much more dangerous and threatening than the real Doof. He always considers others as a leverage to his adavantage and is perfectly willing to harm them for his goal. He even tried to feed the first dimension Phineas, Ferb, Candace, Perry, and Doof to the goozim while he takes over the first dimension Tri-State Area.
** His wife Charlene-2 acts like a sweet matriarch, but is just as bad as he is. She was responsible for turning the second dimension O.W.C.A animal agents into ruthless cyborgs to enforce the family reign. She even planned on turning Phineas-2, Candace-2 and Ferb-2 into cyborgs after tricking them into freeing her husband.

*** [[spoiler: Stinky Pete]] from ''WesternAnimation/ToyStory2'' acted in a grandfather-like manner to Woody, but that was just a facade to hide his bitterness and loathing of children and space toys.
*** Lotso, from ''WesternAnimation/ToyStory3'', pretends to be friendly to the toys at first, only revealing his real evil nature later.
** Hopper from ''WesternAnimation/ABugsLife'' has moments when he acts polite while or after doing something horrendous. While preparing to feed Dot to Thumper, he politely asks her if she's afraid of grasshoppers. After three of his gang ask why they have to go back to Ant Island, he behaves as though he agrees with them - that it would be a better idea to stay home; then he kills them, explaining that they're not returning primarily for food, but to keep the ants in line.

** Jackson Storm from ''WesternAnimation/Cars3'' is open and superficially friendly, but always has a couple of harsh barbs at hand.
** ''WesternAnimation/{{Coco}}'': [[spoiler:Ernesto is a friendly, upbeat, admittedly somewhat arrogant but generally nice-seeming musician. Then it turns out he's a liar, a murderer, and a thief who murdered Hector in order to steal his guitar and music, and as soon as Miguel finds this out, he hurls both Miguel and Hector into a ''cenote'', uncaring that Miguel was about to die and Hector fade away.]]
* ''WesternAnimation/TheProphet'': The Commandant is not only a calm and patient man but also a cruel one. His talk of philosophy with Mustafa very clearly lays out an oppressive and totalitarian worldview and his offer of salvation to Mustafa is worded neutrally but tonally drips with contempt. It's especially obvious seeing as what he's offering to save Mustafa from [[spoiler:is the firing squad he's sentenced Mustafa to]].

* The Grand Duke Of Owls in ''WesternAnimation/RockADoodle''. As a grand duke, he tries to act sophisticated, but his HairTriggerTemper ruins it. Even when calm it's clear his politeness is a façade.

* More than any other of the rats from ''WesternAnimation/TheSecretOfNIMH'', Jenner knows how to appeal to ideals in order to manipulate others which helps him maintain a significant standing among the council despite his aggressive approach. As soon as he regards Mrs. Brisby as a tool for his coup, he immediately starts to fake graceful chivalry to the point of calling himself along with his brethren her humble servants, despite it being clear that he feels neither humble nor servile.
* Rothbart from ''WesternAnimation/TheSwanPrincess'': He killed the king and kidnapped the titular princess in order to gain control of the kingdom--''because he learned the first time around that stealing it was not the way to go'', and constantly remains one step ahead of the heroes. If not for blind luck, the main characters would be dead. He's also a DeadpanSnarker of sorts and never loses his temper.
* ''WesternAnimation/TheThiefAndTheCobbler:'' Zigzag, the EvilChancellor. He gives the king a "bountiful maiden" and a massage, and [[RhymesOnADime speaks in rhyme]]--but his "friendly" actions are just for manipulation and to keep the king busy.
** [[BigBad King Mighty One-Eye]] counts as well. He calmly listens to Zigzag's proposal in the One-Eyes camp, but when Zigzag claims to have charmed beasts before giving the three golden balls, King Mighty One-Eye scoffs at this by ordering Zigzag to be fed to the alligators as he feels that he's useless, though he would later change his mind afterwards.

* Bradley Uppercrust III from ''WesternAnimation/AnExtremelyGoofyMovie''. He's polite to team prospects (though passive-aggressive to non-prospects and others) but never means any of it. He's ruthless enough to [[spoiler: deliberately endanger his opponents and leave his own right hand man to die.]]

** ''WesternAnimation/AliceInWonderland'': The Queen of Hearts likes to pretend that she's polite, lecturing Alice on manners to try to get her to be a graceful lady while speaking to her in a soft voice and addressing her as "my dear". At the same time, she is a psychopath with a HairTriggerTemper who suffers from severe mood swings, ordering people beheaded for the most trivial reasons. While she does act polite, the façade falls apart whenever anything goes wrong for her, and she becomes a shouting tyrant.

** Lord Shen, from ''WesternAnimation/KungFuPanda2'', is very pleasant and polite to his enemies, but he doesn't even attempt to hide that he is a violent monster. When his foes don't heed any of his warnings, he stops the threatening formalities and quickly proceeds to blow anyone up who opposes him.

* The Grand Duke Of Owls in ''WesternAnimation/RockADoodle''. As a grand duke, he tries to act sophisticated, but his HairTriggerTemper ruins it. Even when calm it's clear his politeness is a façade.

** Lord Shen, from ''WesternAnimation/KungFuPanda2'', is very pleasant and polite to his enemies, but he doesn't even really attempt to fool anyone that he is a violent monster. When his foes don't heed any of his warnings, he stops the threatening formalities and quickly proceeds to blow anyone up who opposes him.

** ''WesternAnimation/Frozen2013'': [[spoiler:Prince Hans]], as part of his status as TheSociopath. Again, he's good enough to fool ''the viewer''. [[spoiler:His stint throughout the film is posing as a caring love interest and heroic PrinceCharming figure to nearly everyone he interacts with, but it's all a [[VillainWithGoodPublicity facade to gain good publicity on Arendelle]] and build a close relationship with Anna. When he no longer needs to, he shows himself as a smug, confident, and ambitious individual who not only [[KickTheDog rubs it in her face]], but is able to feign grief for her at the drop of a hat when he tells the other dignitaries that Anna has died]].

** Ursula from ''WesternAnimation/TheLittleMermaid'' acts kind and empathetic when offering contracts to her victims. By the time they realized they've been fooled, it's too late.

** ''WesternAnimation/TheJungleBook'':

** The Sheriff of Nottingham in ''WesternAnimation/RobinHood'' is quite cheerful and polite on the surface, but it's just to toy with people. He'll take from the church's poor box, a blind beggar's cup, or a ''crying child's birthday present'', and he'll enjoy every rotten moment of it--all the while asserting in his folksy Southern accent that Prince John sends his best regards.

** ''WesternAnimation/TheLionKing'': Scar acts like a kindly uncle towards Simba while secretly plotting his and Mufasa's deaths.

** ''WesternAnimation/{{The Hunchback of Notre Dame|Disney}}'' has Claude Frollo, who affects a caring demeanor towards Quasimodo, acting as though his exile in the belltower is a kindness, saving him from the cruelties of the outside world.
** ''WesternAnimation/{{Hercules}}'' has Hades as its Faux Affably Evil BigBad. He talks like a [[HonestJohnsDealership used car salesman]] and makes wisecracks while screwing over everyone as much as possible. That being said, outside of his source material, he acts more Affably Evil instead in comparison to the other Disney villains, particularly in ''Mickey's WesternAnimation/HouseOfMouse''.

** ''WesternAnimation/{{Zootopia}}'': [[spoiler: Bellwether puts on a facade of friendliness as a politician and tries to win Judy Hopps over to her side. When Judy refuses to join the anti-predator conspiracy, Bellwether wastes no time trying to engineer her murder by turning Nick savage. ]]

** Fairy Godmother from ''WesternAnimation/{{Shrek 2}}''.

** ''WesternAnimation/{{Cinderella}}'': Lady Tremaine. She doesn't often raise her voice and can seem quite pleasant, but she loves the use of ExactWords and is a ManipulativeBastard when it comes to setting her daughters on Cinderella.