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* The trope is PlayedWith with ''WesternAnimation/AdventureTime'''s Ricardio. Finn thinks that he is evil, and since his opinion can be... ahem... slighly [[CrazyJealousGuy biased]], he probably suspects him for the wrong reasons. Then the trope seems to play out and he hurts him in a really shocking fashion, and everyone is incensed at his even imagining that Ricardio would be evil... and it turns out that he is. But still, Finn had no actual reason to believe it. Try to count the subversions in this. We dare you!

** ''VisualNovel/ApolloJusticeAceAttorney'' introduces Klavier Gavin as the new prosecutor. Given that every single previous prosector in this series has started out as arrogant {{Amoral Attorney}}s at best and turned out to be murderous {{Complete Monster}}s at worst, you'll naturally expect him to be hiding something rotten underneath his charming and friendly exterior ''especially'' considering that you've just seen his older brother be exposed as a murdering BitchInSheepsClothing. This appears to be confirmed when you learn that he [[spoiler:had a hand in stripping Phoenix of his badge]]. However, it turns out that [[spoiler:Klavier really is a genuinely kind and decent person who initially didn't know of his brother's true nature, suffered from massive guilt about his role in Phoenix's disbarral, and is willing to turn against his own bandmates and brother to see justice done]].

** [[spoiler: Scott's dad is actually sweet and understanding and lets him play again]].
** [[spoiler: Jules is a GoodBadGirl CloudCuckooLander and leaves it at that]].
** [[spoiler: Jeffrey is actually just a bit CreepyGood]].

* ''Film/Crush'', has a spoiler which it is better not to highlight since this makes up for the entire resolution : [[spoiler: Scott's dad is actually sweet and understanding and lets him play again. Jules is a GoodBadGirl CloudCuckooLander and leaves it at that. Jeffrey is actually just a bit CreepyGood. Now, for the real spoiler: Bess herself is just a romantic girl who lives next the male lead, reads his facebook posts and sometimes picks up the wonderful drawings he throws away.]]

* ''Film/Crush'', has a spoiler which it is better not to highlight since this makes up for the entire resolution : [[spoiler: Scott's dad is actually sweet and understanding and lets him play again. Now, for the real spoiler: Bess.]]

* [[ImpliedTrope Hinted Trope]] at least in the final case of ''VisualNovel/AceAttorneyInvestigationsMilesEdgeworth''. The character [[spoiler:Colias Paeleno]] cooperates in nearly every way that they can with your investigation of crime scenes, a behavior which the franchise generaly uses for guilty parts. In the end, it turns out that they were using expectations from the player, and the person really is just that helpful, which may be a first for the franchise.

Elene from the ''Literature/{{Night Angel Trilogy}}'' is this trope personified. She is repeatedly shown to be a truly kindhearted soul, which is even more apparent when you consider the corruption and cruelty she grew up surrounded by.

* ''Film/MansfieldPark'' has Fanny Price, in-universe. She refuses to marry the young, rich and charming Henry Crawford, causing him a heartbreak and robbing Sir Thomas Bertram, the baronet who brought her up since she was ten, from a lot of connections and honors, something she was expected to do as a thank you. Fanny (whose thoughts are conveyed by the narrator without comment) starts wondering if she is mean, willful and self-involved... but when reading what follows, it is very clear that she is just ''sane''. Henry Crawford is a flirt who started a relationship with her engaged cousin, and she doesn't feel she should marry him to please him.

** To a minor, NotSoDifferent-at-least-by-actions degree, in the third episode, when asked if she really spoiled the queen's life by her prince, Snow White bluntly answers she did, and spends the episodes stealing people. It is her only mean of survival, and hurting the Queen was unintentional. Then, in episode 16, she tries to kill the Queen, but she is saved from the spell which pushed her into this.

* Asami Sato in ''WesternAnimation/TheLegendOfKorra'' seems too good to be true in her first appearance, as after a CrashIntoHello MeetCute with one of the male protagonists, she immediately offers to sponsor him and his brother with her father's vast wealth. Many fans immediately suspected she would turn out to be a RichBitch, and it was also quickly theorized that she was really an [[TheMole Equalist spy]]. However, Asami turns out to be SpoiledSweet and just as good of a person as she appears. There's also a RedHerring in hear appearance, as she looks like a FemmeFatale and wears [[RedAndBlackAndEvilAllOver red and black]], but she's really just a case of RavenHairIvorySkin wearing [[CultureEqualsCostume her culture's favored dress]].

But [[TVTropesWillRuinYourLife you've been]] on TV Tropes. [[CloudCuckooLander You]] [[InsaneTrollLogic know]] what it means. She's a StepfordSmiler, and certainly not a type A. She's obviously a FemmeFatale GoldDigger StarfishAlien who wants to take over the world, take your job and dad and friends away from you and humiliate you at prom... AndYourLittleDogToo... [[GenericDoomsdayVillain because of]]... [[StepThreeProfit reasons]]...

* ''Film/WhoFramedRogerRabbit'' has Baby Hermann. He is apparently a joyful and innocent baby who is very kind. But wait, he is actually a grumpy man who even has a love life... and is very kind.

* The trope is PlayedWith with ''WesternAnimation/AdventureTime'''s Ricardio. Finn thinks that he is evil, and since his opinion can be... ahem... slighly [[CrazyJealousGuy biased]], he probably suspects him for the wrong reaons. Then the trope seems to play out and he hurts him in a really shocking fashion, and everyone is incensed at his even imagining that Ricardio would be evil... and it turns out that he is. But still, Finn had no actual reason to believe it. Try to count the subversions in this. We dare you!

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* Jane Fairfax from ''Literature/{{Emma}}'' is an OlderThanRadio example. She was just a ShrinkingViolet well-known as a sweet and innocent person secretly trying [[spoiler: to keep her secret engagement, well, secret]]. Too bad a nosy, charming, and manipulative heroine came and almost ruined it all by beginning to flirt with [[spoiler: her fiance]] and asking him what he thought she was hiding, because of her InferioritySuperiorityComplex. [[spoiler:[[SpoiledSweet Said]] [[TheCharmer fiance]] ]] felt "forced" to play along [[spoiler: to keep the engagement a secret]], began to give her whatever "leads" came to his mind, then to flirt back, then to [[spoiler: toy with Jane's feelings]]. [[spoiler: Guilty and disgusted, Jane took the very classy decision to try to break up with him and to resign herself to a life as a poor governess, but he finally went back to her]].

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* In an episode of ''Series/{{Angel}}'', Fred's parents come looking for her (Fred had been lost in another dimension for five years). They seem like the nicest, sweetest people you've ever seen, barring a couple moments when they whisper ominously to each other, and Fred freaks out and runs when she sees them. Turns out they [[spoiler: really are that sweet. Fred panicked because she didn't want them to see her after she'd been traumatized, and their whispers were because they thought Angel and company were suspicious which is a very fair point]].

* ''Series/{{Once Upon a Time}}''
** After they began watching, many viewers expected the poor Kathryn Nolan to be a BitchInSheepsClothing version of the RoyalBrat Abigail, the person she was before being under the curse. Actually, Abigail was just a HateSink (she simply wasn't thrilled at the idea of an arranged marriage to PrinceCharming and chastized him for taking a bumpy road) JerkWithAHeartOfGold BrokenBird [[spoiler: trying to cope with her at-the-time probable case of TheLostLenore]] and Kathryn was just another version of her, made even nicer and a bit more unstable by the curse [[spoiler: who ended up pulling IWantMyBelovedToBeHappy ''hours'' after discovering that her husband may have cheated on her]].

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* Lizzie from ''TheLizzieBennetDiaries'' imagines Bing Lee as a sexist BitchInSheepsClothing, because her StageMom tries to throw her daughters at him and she thinks he will take advantage of it and his social standing to manipulate her sweet, idealistic sister. He is actually a NiceGuy [[SickeninglySweethearts Sickeningly Sweetheart]] KnightInShiningArmor with two {{Token Evil Teammate}}s, one of which isn't [[JerkWithAHeartOfGold so bad]]. [[spoiler: When he leaves, those who read the book know that his actions were motivated only by the impression that Jane didn't reciprocate his feelings]].

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->''Mr. Rogers projected an air of genuine, unwavering, almost saintly pure-hearted decency. But when you look deeper, at the person behind the image ... that's exactly what you find there, too. He's exactly what he appears to be.''

* The trope is PlayedWith with ''AdventureTime'''s Ricardio. Finn thinks that he is evil, and since his opinion can be... ahem... slighly [[CrazyJealousGuy biased]], he probably suspects him for the wrong reaons. Then the trope seems to play out and he hurts him in a really shocking fashion, and everyone is incensed at his even imagining that Ricardio would be evil... and it turns out that he is. But still, Finn had no actual reason to believe it. Try to count the subversions in this. We dare you!

* In an episode of ''TheFairlyOddParents'', Timmy summons a pop star, hoping that he will be a BitchInSheepsClothing and that forcing him to marry his babysitter will be a way to torture her. However, he is very nice, and things go well.

--->'''Matilda''': And the archbishop of Cantorberry came on my burial ground, and he spoke to the crowd. And he said this, that William had defeated his enemies through war, whereas I defeated them with peace. He was wrong ''([[ShrinkingViolet looks up]] and really [[WhenSheSmiles smiles]] for the [[CrowningMomentOfHeartwarming first time]])'' [[ReasonableAuthorityFigure for]] [[ActualPacifist I]] [[MoralityChain never]] [[TheHighQueen had]] [[TheHeart enemies]].

** In the novelization, Bruce/Batman is shown investigating Dent, believing him to be too good to be true, and all he finds is that Dent hides the fact that he had an unhappy childhood with a cruelly abusive father.

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* [[ImpliedTrope Hinted Trope]] at least in the final case of ''VisualNovel/AceAttorneyInvestigationsMilesEdgeworth''. The character [[spoiler: Colias Paeleno]] cooperates in nearly every way that they can with your investigation of crime scenes, a behavior which the franchise generaly uses for guilty parts. In the end, it turns out that they were using expectations from the player, and the person really is just that helpful, which may be a first for the franchise.

* In ''VideoGame/Undertale'', Toriel is a seemingly benign and motherly figure who saves you from being killed by the first monster you encounter. From that point on she dotes on you, literally holding your hand through puzzles and even baking you a pie, though she hastily changes the subject if you ask her to show you the way out. It's easy for GenreSavvy players to draw exactly the wrong conclusions about her, but in the end...she actually ''is'' as benign and motherly as she appears, and her reluctance to let you leave is born of a genuine concern that you'll die if she lets you go out into the Underworld - ''just like all the others that came before you.''

* In ''{{Undertale}}'', Toriel is a seemingly benign and motherly figure who saves you from being killed by the first monster you encounter. From that point on she dotes on you, literally holding your hand through puzzles and even baking you a pie, though she hastily changes the subject if you ask her to show you the way out. It's easy for GenreSavvy players to draw exactly the wrong conclusions about her, but in the end...she actually ''is'' as benign and motherly as she appears, and her reluctance to let you leave is born of a genuine concern that you'll die if she lets you go out into the Underworld - ''just like all the others that came before you.''

* Asami Sato in ''WesternAnimation/TheLegendOfKorra'' seems too good to be true in her first appearance, as after a CrashIntoHello MeetCute with one of the male protagonists, she immediately offers to sponsor him and his brother with her father's vast wealth. Many fans immediately suspected she would turn out to be a RichBitch, and it was also quickly theorized that she was really an [[TheMole Equalist spy]]. However, Asami turns out to be SpoiledSweet and just as good of a person as she appears. There's also a RedHerring in hear appearance, as she looks like a FemmeFatale and wears [[BlackRedAndEvilAllOver black and red]], but she's really just a case of RavenHairIvorySkin wearing [[CultureEqualsCostume her culture's favored dress]].

* Asami Sato in ''WesternAnimation/TheLegendOfKorra'' seems too good to be true in her first appearance, as after a CrashIntoHello MeetCute with one of the male protagonists, she immediately offers to sponsor him and his brother with her father's vast wealth. Many fans immediately suspected she would turn out to be a RichBitch, and it was also quickly theorized that she was really an [[TheMole Equalist spy]]. However, Asami turns out to be SpoiledSweet and just as good of a person as she appears. There's also a RedHerring in hear appearance, as she looks like a FemmeFatale and wears [[BlackAndRedAndEvilAllOver black and red]], but she's really just a case of RavenHairIvorySkin wearing [[CultureEqualsCostume her culture's favored dress]].