History Main / AWolfInSheepsClothing

** [[spoiler:The ''Wizard King'' himself turns out to be one of these by the text definition.]] Few would had been believed that the benelovent [[spoiler:Julius Novachrono is a split personality of Lucius Zogratis, a megalomaniac who has been influencing most of Julius's suggestions to unleash a world-wide Holy War that ends all inequality and suffering.]]

*** Joe Bamko tries to pose as a caring if down-on-his-luck family man, who has taken in his widowed sister-in-law and her kids out of the kindness of his heart, but in reality, he's a gangster and abusive Jerkass and his sister-in-law ends up so worried that he's going to hurt her kids and she won't be able to stop him that she ends up planning to kill him to save her family.

** ''ComicBook/WonderWoman1942'': Etta runs into a high-level mobster who has kept from being implicated in her group's criminal activity by playing the helpless victim. She is quite annoyed when Etta overhears her ordering her men to carry out insurance fraud.

*** Diana's new friend Donna Milton is a murderer who is inserting herself in Diana's life to help the Big Bad of the arc defeat her. She ends up coming to care for Diana despite her original intent which becomes even more poignant with the later reveal that Donna is [[spoiler:Circe]].

* Inverted in the ''Literature/DarkestPowers'' series by [[OurWerewolvesAreDifferent Derek Souza]]. He's standoffish and can be [[NoSympathy utterly tactless]] at times, but he's also a genuinely good person who still carries the guilt of the ''one time'' he accidentally hurt someone in self-defense. However, everyone, including a family friend who's known him from childhood, assumes he's a violent thug pretending to be harmless. The [[{{Muggle}} humans]] fear him because he's over six feet tall and 220 pounds of solid muscle at the age of 16, and the supernaturals fear him because [[FantasticRacism he's a werewolf]]. In short: Derek is usually assumed to be a wolf in sheep's clothing when, metaphorically, the opposite is true.

* In ''Literature/RiverOfTeeth'', Archie, a cunning thief and con-woman, likes to disguise herself as a [[SouthernBelle proper lady]] because nobody ever suspects a fat woman in a custom-made dress to have such nimble fingers.

** ''WesternAnimation/JurassicWorldCampCretaceous'': Mitch and his wife Tiffany at first present themselves to the main cast as friendly eco-tourists, but are in actuality big-game poachers.

* The aptly named song "Wolf in Sheep's Clothing" by Set it Off describes such a character, although by the Tv Tropes definition it actually seems to refer to a BitchInSheepsClothing.

* ''Literature/TheAchilleid'': Ulysses and Diomedes pretend to arrive in Scyros in search of love, but in reality are just attempting to trick Achilles into joining the Trojan War. The narration explicitly compares them to wolves tricking a shepherd's guard dog into letting them prey on its master's flock.

* ''VideoGame/Castlevania64'': [[IntrepidMerchant Renon]] openly introduces himself as a demon but reassures you that since one "needs gold even in Hell these days" that he'd rather exploit the niche market of adventurers who need supplies in the titular castle. Throughout the game, he is polite, gentlemanly, and has a real habit of leaving the contract necessary to summon him wherever you need it. [[spoiler:While it's possible to ''only'' see this side of him, he neglects to tell you about the [[ReadTheFinePrint contract's fine print]]: spend more than $30,000 and he ''owns your soul''. If this happens he goes full OneWingedAngel and becomes a rather gruelling OptionalBoss intent on taking what is now his.]]

* "Auxiliary cruisers" that is merchant vessels with concealed armament used for one of two things:

* Most of the Homunculi from ''Manga/FullMetalAlchemist''. Special mention goes to Lust and Pride in the 2003 series and Wrath and Pride in the manga, who manage to fool various members of the military and the protagonists.
* In ''LightNovel/HeavyObject'', the Scarlet Princess appears to be a luxury cruise liner, the perfect target for RuthlessModernPirates. It's actually a disguised Legitimacy Kingdom cruiser that specializes in counter-piracy operations.

%%* Yukino Azusagawa in ''Manga/YakitateJapan'' does it a lot to Azuma's gang.
%% commented out ZCE

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* Literally with Charmy Pappitson in ''Manga/BlackClover''. [[spoiler:When she awakens her Dwarven heritage, the giant sheep she normally creates using Cotton Magic sheds its skin to reveal a gigantic hungry wolf.]] It signifies her dangerous side and voracious appetite, [[spoiler:gaining Food Magic to become a MagicEater]].

* ''VideoGame/Castlevania64'': [[IntrepidMerchant Renon]] openly introduces himself as a demon but reassures you that since one "needs gold even in Hell these days" that he'd rather exploit the niche market of adventurers who need supplies in the titular castle. Throughout the game, he is polite, gentlemanly, and has a real habit of leaving the contract necessary to summon him wherever you need it. [[spoiler:While it's possible to ''only'' see this side of him, he neglects to tell you about the [[ReadTheFinePrint contract's fine print]]: spend more than $30,000 and he ''owns your soul''. If this happens he goes full OneWingedAngel and becomes a rather gruelling BonusBoss intent on taking what is now his.]]

* In ''LightNovel/HeavyObject'', the Scarlet Princess appears to be a luxury cruise liner, the perfect target for RuthlessModernPirates. It's actually a disguised Legitimacy Kingdom cruiser which specializes in counter-piracy operations.

* In ''Manga/TokyoGhoul'', ghouls that don't actively shun human society do this out of necessity. A predator living among their prey, they must work to constantly maintain a normal and harmless persona to avoid being discovered and hunted down by the authorities. Those that go a step further and maintain a human identity are said to be walking a tight-rope, always having to keep their predatory instincts in check and avoid doing ''anything'' that could give them away. Sadly, it doesn't ''matter'' if their kindness is genuine or not. After all, [[WhatMeasureIsANonHuman ghouls aren't really people]], right?

*** Joe Bamko tries to pose as a caring if down on his luck family man, who has taken in his widowed sister in law and her kids out of the kindness of his heart, but in reality, he's a gangster and abusive Jerkass and his sister-in-law ends up so worried that he's going to hurt her kids and she won't be able to stop him that she ends up planning to kill him to save her family.

* Natalie Brough in ''Literature/BeastTamer'' appears as your stereotypical cute and friendly receptionist at the adventurer's guild, but in episode 2, a known trouble maker makes the mistake of MuggingTheMonster by trying to hit on Kanade and challenging Rein to an arm-wrestling contest. When he's defeated, she comes out to see what the commotion's about only for this fool to grab and pull on her skirt. At this point, she grabs and flips over a several hundred pound wooden table and bashes the trouble-maker with it, and then dragging him, with the table still on his head, away and the table slowly falls off from friction.

* In ''Literature/RiverOfTeeth'', Archie, a cunning thief and conwoman, likes to disguise herself as a [[SouthernBelle proper lady]] because nobody ever suspects a fat woman in a custom-made dress to have such nimble fingers.

* ''Literature/TheAchilleid'': Ulysses and Diomedes pretend to arrive in Scyros in search of love, but in reality are just attempting to trick Achilles into joining the Trojan War. The narration explicitly compares them to wolves tricking a shepherd's guard-dog into letting them prey on its master's flock.

* ''VideoGame/Castlevania64'': [[IntrepidMerchant Renon]] openly introduces himself as a demon, but reassures you that since one "needs gold even in Hell these days" that he'd rather exploit the niche market of adventurers who need supplies in the titular castle. Throughout the game, he is polite, gentlemanly, and has a real habit of leaving the contract necessary to summon him wherever you need it. [[spoiler:While it's possible to ''only'' see this side of him, he neglects to tell you about the [[ReadTheFinePrint contract's fine print]]: spend more than $30,000 and he ''owns your soul''. If this happens he goes full OneWingedAngel and becomes a rather gruelling BonusBoss intent on taking what is now his.]]

* Most fish would avoid attacking a Cleaner Wrasse and instead allow it eat their parasites. The False Cleaner Wrasse's appearance resembles the real thing, allowing it to stay relatively safe while biting off pieces of fins from victims expecting a cleaning.

** [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Q-ship Q-ships]] intended to lure enemy submarines into attacking them while surfaced. Theoretically also useful against small surface vessels, but the one time a Q-ship got involved in a scuffle with a surface vessel it's opponent was a battleship.

* Natalie Brough in ''Anime/BeastTamer'' appears as your stereotypical cute and friendly receptionist at the adventurer's guild, but in episode 2, a known trouble maker makes the mistake of MuggingTheMonster by trying to hit on Kanade and challenging Rein to an arm-wrestling contest. When he's defeated, she comes out to see what the commotion's about only for this fool to grab and pull on her skirt. At this point, she grabs and flips over a several hundred pound wooden table and bashes the trouble-maker with it, and then dragging him, with the table still on his head, away and the table slowly falls off from friction.

%% * One short story includes the budding romance between two werewolves; one of them worries that the other may be "a sheep in wolves' clothing".
%% Which short story?
%% * Darvulia in ''Literature/CountAndCountess''.
%% ZCE

%% * Yukino Azusagawa in ''Manga/YakitateJapan'' does it a lot to Azuma's gang.
%% commented out ZCE

--> '''Jimbei:''' Ever since he was on old Whitebeard's ship, no one's ever known his true nature.

* Most of the Homunculi from Manga/FullMetalAlchemist. Special mention goes to Lust and Pride in the 2003 series and Wrath and Pride in the manga, who manage to fool various members of the military and the protagonists.
* In ''Manga/TokyoGhoul'', ghouls that don't actively shun human society do this out of necessity. A predator living among their prey, they must work to constantly maintain a normal and harmless persona to avoid being discovered and hunted down by the authorities. Those that go a step further and maintain a human identity are said to be walking a tight-rope, always having to keep their predatory instincts in check and avoid doing ''anything'' that could give them away. Sadly, it doesn't ''matter'' if their kindness is genuine or not. After all, [[WhatMeasureIsANonHuman ghouls aren't really people]], right?
* Literally with Charmy Pappitson in ''Manga/BlackClover''. [[spoiler: When she awakens her Dwarven heritage, the giant sheep she normally creates using Cotton Magic sheds its skin to reveal a gigantic hungry wolf.]] It signifies her dangerous side and voracious appetite, [[spoiler:gaining Food Magic to become a MagicEater.]]
* In ''LightNovel/HeavyObject'', the Scarlet Princess appears to be a luxury cruise liner, the perfect target for RuthlessModernPirates. It's actually a disguised Legitimacy Kingdom cruiser which specializes in counter-piracy operations.

* ''ComicBook/TheUltimates'': Henry Pym is a wifebeater, but for everyone else, he has a happy marriage with Jan. Nobody suspected anything until he almost killed her.

* One ''ComicStrip/{{Bizarro}}'' had a wolf dressed as a sheep confessing to a therapist that he's not wearing it to catch sheep anymore. It's the real him.

--> '''Otto:''' I mean, what could you have against Odd Squad anyway, if you were so nice to us before?
--> '''Mariana Mag:''' Nice? Ha! That wasn't being nice. That was acting, flattery, and toleration.

%% * In ''Fanfic/TheTaintedGrimoire'', Ewen went undercover using the false name [[spoiler: Fasullo]] to spy on Baron Beltorey.

* The expression is referenced in ''WesternAnimation/{{Zootopia}}'' in the form of a VisualPun, where near the end Chief Bogo assigns a trio of officers to undercover, and the wolf of the group puts on a disturbingly convincing sheep costume. This is also exploited by the main villain, [[spoiler: who is literally a sheep]].
* ''WesternAnimation/{{Hoodwinked}}'' also does this with a VisualPun. Namely, [[IntrepidReporter the Wolf]] and Twitchy disguise themselves in sheepskins to infiltrate a flock and talk to a sheep that is one of the Wolf's best sources of information.
* ''Creator/{{Pixar}}'' likes this kind of villain. Although not all of their villains are hiding malicious intentions behind an affable face (some are {{Card Carrying Villain}}s and other films just have NoAntagonist), if a charismatic, affable man enters the scene, you have probably seen the introduction of the film's BigBad.

* Inverted in the ''Literature/DarkestPowers'' series by [[OurWerewolvesAreDifferent Derek Souza]]. He's standoffish and can be [[NoSympathy utterly tactless]] at times, but he's also a genuinely good person who still carries the guilt of the ''one time'' he accidentally hurt someone in self-defense. However, everyone, including a family friend who's known him from childhood, assumes he's a violent thug pretending to be harmless. The [[{{Muggle}} humans]] fear him because he's over six feet tall and 220 pounds of solid muscle at the age of 16, and the supernaturals fear him because [[FantasticRacism he's a werewolf]]. In short: Derek is usually assumed to be a wolf in sheep's clothing when, metaphorically, the opposite is true.
* In ''Literature/DragonBones'', there is an individual who pretends to be [[spoiler: a harmless escaped slave, while she's actually magically enslaved and working for her master all the time. She]] is actually quite a nasty person, but pretends to be nice.

* ''Literature/ASongOfIceAndFire'', (being an entire series worth of {{Doorstopper}} sized [[GambitPileup Gambit Pileups]]), has no shortage of these, but one character who stands out for this trope is Petyr "Littlefinger" Baelish. He's an interesting example because he doesn't pretend to be nice (his affable persona is a deliberately PaperThinDisguise); the real pretence is that he acts like a SmugSnake when he is in fact a full-fledged {{Chessmaster}}, so still fits the bill of pretending to be much less dangerous than he really is.

* Geryon, a monster from ''Literature/TheDivineComedy'' who guards Eighth Circle of Hell, is the biological manifestation of fraud. It may have the face of a beautiful man, but behind that face is the body of a massive winged serpent with a tail ripe with venom.
* Granny Weatherwax from the ''Literature/{{Discworld}}'' series subverts this when she disguises herself as a “harmless old apple seller”. Not only by being a heroic character but also by the fact that nobody is fooled, they’re all just too scared of her to argue.

* ''Series/Daredevil2015'': This trope aptly describes [[LovableAlphaBitch Marci Stahl]]. Marci is the only white-collar attorney we've seen across Landman & Zack or Hogarth Chao & Benowitz who actually shows compassion and selflessness towards others and isn't willingly engaging in illegal activity, and puts up a selfish front because she doesn't want to be seen as weak.

%% * ''VideoGame/FinalFantasyVII'': Sephiroth.%%ZCE
* ''VideoGame/Castlevania64'': [[IntrepidMerchant Renon]] openly introduces himself as a demon, but reassures you that since one "needs gold even in Hell these days" that he'd rather exploit the niche market of adventurers who need supplies in the titular castle. Throughout the game, he is polite, gentlemanly, and has a real habit of leaving the contract necessary to summon him wherever you need it. [[spoiler:While it's possible to ''only'' see this side of him, he neglects to tell you about the [[ReadTheFinePrint contract's fine print]]: spend more than $30,000 and he ''owns your soul''. If this happens he goes full OneWingedAngel and becomes a rather gruelling BonusBoss intent on taking what is now his.]]
* ''VideoGame/RedDeadRedemption2'': Leopald Strauss looks like a harmless old grandfather but is in truth an EvilDebtCollector who loans money out to desperate folks and then doesn't care if [[TheBrute Arthur]] has to literally beat the money back out of them. [[spoiler:[[HiddenDepths That said]], even after being kicked out of the gang by Arthur [[EvenEvilHasStandards as not even the rest of the gang can stomach his practices anymore]], [[UndyingLoyalty Strauss died under the torture of the Pinkertons and never spoke a single word of the gang's secrets]].]]

* ''Webcomic/ZeroPercentDiscount'' has such a wolf but he [[http://zeropercentdiscountcomic.tumblr.com/post/68681884216 gets killed]] by a ThreateningShark.

* The expression is referenced in ''WesternAnimation/{{Zootopia}}'' in the form of a VisualPun, where near the end Chief Bogo assigns a trio of officers to undercover, and the wolf of the group puts on a disturbingly convincing sheep costume. This is also exploited by the main villain, [[spoiler: who is literally a sheep.]]

* Petrus of Thorouland from ''VideoGame/DarkSouls'' quotes this word-by-word if [[spoiler: you get killed by him when you attempted to avenge Reah.]]
* Done literally in ''VideoGame/SheepDogNWolf'': the player character (Ralph Wolf) can acquire and wear a sheep costume, and uses it to steal sheep.
%% * Richard ''VideoGame/TalesofGraces'' prior to assuming the throne.
%% ZCE
%% * Sephiroth ''VideoGame/FinalFantasyVII''
%% ZCE
* [[IntrepidMerchant Renon]] from ''VideoGame/{{Castlevania 64}}'' openly introduces himself as a demon, but reassures you that since one "needs gold even in Hell these days" that he'd rather exploit the niche market of adventurers who need supplies in the titular castle. Throughout the game, he is polite, gentlemanly, and has a real habit of leaving the contract necessary to summon him wherever you need it. [[spoiler:While it's possible to ''only'' see this side of him, he neglects to tell you about the [[ReadTheFinePrint contract's fine print]]: spend more than $30,000 and he ''owns your soul''. If this happens he goes full OneWingedAngel and becomes a rather gruelling BonusBoss intent on taking what is now his.]]
* Leopald Strauss from ''VideoGame/RedDeadRedemption2'' looks like a harmless old grandfather but is in truth an EvilDebtCollector who loans money out to desperate folks and then doesn't care if [[TheBrute Arthur]] has to literally beat the money back out of them. [[spoiler:[[HiddenDepths That said]], even after being kicked out of the gang by Arthur [[EvenEvilHasStandards as not even the rest of the gang can stomach his practices anymore]], [[UndyingLoyalty Strauss died under the torture of the Pinkertons and never spoke a single word of the gang's secrets]].]]
* The traitor in ''VideoGame/{{Wadanohara}}'' is eventually revealed to be [[spoiler:a shark in an unassuming dolphin's clothing]].

* Played with in multiple fashions in ''Webcomic/KevinAndKell'', particularly in the relationship between Corrie (a sheep [[note]]well, a half-wolf, half-sheep who mostly identifies as a sheep[[/note]]) and Bruno (a wolf). Corrie spent a period as a ''sheep'' in ''wolf's'' clothing since Bruno's best friend Rudy was opposed to carnivore/herbivore relationships.

* ''Fanfic/AllMixedUp'': Mariana Mag pretends to be harmless and treats Odd Squad with nothing but kindness right when she moves to town. However, it's all a facade as she's eventually revealed to be the BigBad of the story who targets and attacks Precinct 13579's agents left and right.

* ''Series/{{Supernatural}}'': When the Prince of Hell [[Characters/SupernaturalDemons Dagon]] comes to Kelly's and her unborn Nephilim baby's aid, the former at first presents herself as reassuring and supportive, but she drops this fairly fast once she has Kelly in her clutches and playing nice no longer benefits her.

** ''Film/JurassicPark'': Nedry is approached by a friendly-looking dinosaur that almost seems like the dodo of dinos. Then it extends its frill and is revealed to be the ''[[Characters/JurassicPark1993 Dilophosaurus]]'' -- cue Nedry's CruelAndUnusualDeath.
** ''WesternAnimation/JurassicWorldCampCretaceous'': [[Characters/JurassicWorldCampCretaceous Mitch]] and his wife Tiffany at first present themselves to the main cast as friendly eco-tourists, but are in actuality big-game poachers.

* ''Fanfic/BloodAndRevolution'': Saitou, as with his canon counterpart, takes on unassuming and pleasant personae to deal with politics and go undercover. Fujita Gorou was probably the longest-running (as it was his civilian persona) but Ichinose Denpachi deserves special notice for changing his personal pronoun consistently to [[UsefulNotes/JapanesePronouns 'boku']].
* ''Fanfic/TheMountainAndTheWolf'': The giant man who goes by the Wolf is ''openly'' a murderous servant of Chaos, but he's so crass and unsubtle in his methods no one can imagine him actually being serious, seeing him as TheFriendNobodyLikes who can be occasionally useful but not enough to willingly spend time around him (and from what we see of his real personality when there's no one around to require the mask, it's NotAnAct). Thus when [[spoiler:Daenerys is killed by his hand]], it's more shocking that he did so when there was no visible gain for him than his suddenly turning evil.

* In the [[UsefulNotes/YanksWithTanks United States Air Force]], there is an entire Fighter Wing that earned its nickname from an operation based on this concept. During UsefulNotes/TheVietnamWar, North Vietnamese [=MiGs=] were pouncing on American F-105 Thunderchiefs, older, clumsier fighters that had been relegated to doing bombing missions. The 8th Tactical Fighter Wing, under the leadership of [[AcePilot Robin]] [[NomDeGuerre "The Wolf"]] [[BadassMustache Olds]], launched an operation where F-4 Phantoms would fly the same routes as the F-105s, flying close together so that two Phantoms would resemble a single Thunderchief on the North Vietnamese pilots' radar. When the unwary North Vietnamese pilots closed to engage what they thought were vulnerable bombers, they realized, often too late, that they had blundered into an ambush. Ever since then, the 8th TFW (now simply known as the 8th Fighter Wing) has been called "[[NamesToRunAwayFromReallyFast The Wolfpack.]]"

A SuperTrope to BitchInSheepsClothing, where a {{Jerkass}} or evil character pretends to be nice to manipulate others.

* From a sermon by Jesus recorded in the [[Literature/TheBible Christian Bible]]: "Beware of false prophets, which come to you in sheep's clothing, but inwardly they are ravening wolves" (Gospel of Matthew, 7:15 -- King James Version). The sermon then suggests that their true nature will be revealed by their actions (by their fruits shall ye know them, verse 16).

Supertrope to BitchInSheepsClothing, where some version of JerkAss or evil person pretends to be nice to manipulate people.

Sister trope to ObfuscatingStupidity, ObfuscatingInsanity, ObfuscatingDisability, and CrouchingMoronHiddenBadass, all of which also involve presenting themselves as less of a threat in various permutations. Compare with FaceOfAnAngelMindOfADemon, where an evil character looks like a good one, but whose appearance is not necessarily an affected disguise, and who is definitely evil rather than simply dangerous. Compare NiceCharacterMeanActor, where an evil character pretends to be a good one. May be a ChurchgoingVillain or a SinisterMinister. Contrast BewareTheNiceOnes, when the character actually is nice until you push them too far.

Surprisingly not related to SheepInWolfsClothing, which is when someone is partly turned into a monster but retains enough humanity to work against the monsters.

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* ''ComicStrip/TheFarSide'' did this a few times (being the TropeNamer for FlockOfWolves). Although sometimes, the wolves didn't exactly get it right:
-->'''Wolf''': Hey, that's a good idea. "Sheep's" clothing. Let's get out of these gorilla suits!
* One ''ComicStrip/{{Bizarro}}'' had a wolf dressed as a sheep confessing to a therapist that he's not wearing it to catch sheep anymore. It's the real him.

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%% * In FanFic/TheTaintedGrimoire, Ewen went undercover using the false name [[spoiler: Fasullo]] to spy on Baron Beltorey.
%% False name is not actually context. Needs help.
* ''FanFic/BloodAndRevolution'': Saitou, as with his canon counterpart, takes on unassuming and pleasant personae to deal with politics and go undercover. Fujita Gorou was probably the longest-running (as it was his civilian persona) but Ichinose Denpachi deserves special notice for changing his personal pronoun consistently to [[UsefulNotes/JapanesePronouns 'boku']].

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* [[WesternAnimation/TheThreeLittlePigs The animated version]] of the ''Literature/ThreeLittlePigs'' had the TheBigBadWolf attempt to enter the second pig's house by pretending to be a [[DoorstopBaby baby sheep]]. The two little pigs don't buy it.
-->'''Wolf''': "I'm a poor little sheep, with no place to sleep. Please open the door, and let me in!"
-->'''Pigs''': "Not by the hair of our chinny-chin-chin! You can't fool us with that old sheepskin!"
* The expression is referenced in ''WesternAnimation/{{Zootopia}}'' in the form of a VisualPun, where near the end Chief Bogo assigns a trio of officers to undercover, and the wolf of the group puts on a disturbingly convincing sheep costume.
** This is also exploited by the main villain, [[spoiler: who is literally a sheep.]]
* ''WesternAnimation/{{Hoodwinked}}'' also does this with a VisualPun. Namely, [[IntrepidReporter the Wolf]] and Twitchy disguise themselves in sheepskins to infiltrate a flock and talk to a sheep that is one of the Wolf's best sources of information.
* ''Creator/{{Pixar}}'' likes this kind of villain. Although not all of their villains are hiding malicious intentions behind an affable face (some are {{Card Carrying Villain}}s and other films just have NoAntagonist), if a charismatic, affable man enters the scene, you have probably seen the introduction of the film's BigBad.

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* ''Film/{{Coherence}}:'' Four couples at a dinner party realise that something weird is going on with the house down the road, and Mike shouts that he's going to kill the people in it. After it becomes apparent that the house is ''their house'' in multiple alternate realities, it's one of the other, calmer people who decides to KillAndReplace their double in a happier reality.

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* ''Creator/{{Pixar}}'' likes this kind of villain. Although not all of their villains are hiding malicious intentions behind an affable face (some are CardCarryingVillains and other films just have NoAntagonist), if a charismatic, affable man enters the scene, you have probably seen the introduction of the film's BigBad.