Faux Affably Evil / Web Original

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• 1999: Creepypasta: Mr. Bear is a misanthropic Satanist who takes out his contempt toward the human race by sacrificing children to the Devil. He runs his own channel and creates shows geared toward children. His most popular being "Mr. Bear's House", where he wears a bear costume and acts like a typical kids show host. When he invites children to guest star in his episodes, he acts just like a lovable children's entertainer similar to Barney the Dinosaur or Bear from Bear in the Big Blue House. He refers to the children as his friends and acts super jolly around them; lecturing them about the dangers of scissors while cutting a child's fingers off and stating that drugged orange juice will help them on their journey to the afterlife as he prepares to burn them alive.
• Most State characters in AJCO, but particularly A_J and Breyos. They mask their loathing and contempt for others (and each other) behind fake politeness, and then act offended if anyone calls them out on it as they were 'only being polite'. Their savvier enemies, such as S_K and Egg, are starting to act the same way whenever they have to deal with them (only without the 'Evil' part... maybe).
• In Alice Isn't Dead, Humanoid Abomination the Thistle Man first approaches the Character Narrator by engaging in seemingly genial, folksy small-talk that leaves her very unnerved. She notes that "nothing about his tone matched [what] he was saying," and subsequently pegs him as having decided to bother her from the first. He keeps up the pretense when inviting her to "see sumthin' funny," which happens to be a private display of his ability to pacify and slowly kill a hapless victim of his choosing, by eating him alive.
• Ask That Guy. A completely depraved, devil-worshiping murderer, he is nonetheless quite cheerful as he answers all your questions in the most disturbing ways imaginable.
• Critical Role
  • Trent Ikithon is a very softspoken and well-educated man, who always wears a veil of oily politeness. Behind that veneer however is a cruel, vindictive sadist who uses his position at the Solstryce Academy to groom, torture, and experiment on his handpicked students, molding them into becoming Vollstruckers under his direct command. Caleb murdered his own parents after Trent implanted false memories in his head, an event that landed him in a sanatorium for 11 years and still has him traumatized to this day.
  • Lucien, the Arc Villain of the final arc of the second campaign, is a theatrical showoff, and mostly acts chipper and friendly towards the Nein. He retains that chipper tone even when he's leaving Beau behind to get eaten by a dragon, or when he casually tells Fjord that if the Nein get rid of the Threshold Crest, he'll simply kill them and find another. It's not until the Nein try to call out to Molly during the final battle against him that Lucien truly gets pissed.
  • The main villain of campaign 3, Ludinus Da'leth, falls into this too. He remains soft-spoken, calm, and often gently reprimands Bell's Hells for their lack of politeness, even as he's actively trying to hit them with the most powerful, sadistic magic, inflicting severe and likely permanent brain damage on a college professor who hid information from him, and trying to unleash a god-eating Eldritch Abomination from its prison on the moon.
• Simon Talbot from The Descendants makes up terribly punny names for his various experiments. For example, he asks if 'Cadmus' is too cutesy for a project involving inflicting Body Horror on a captive to splice dragon genomes into her. He then names her after a Disney villain.
• Don't Hug Me I'm Scared:
  • In the second installment, Tony the Talking Clock at first acts like a kind teacher who wants to show the puppets the importance of time. He drops the act quickly when Green Bird presses his Berserk Button by questioning the existence of time, at which point he yells at them until their ears literally bleed and then rots them alive.
  • Similarly, in the fourth installment, Collin the Computer claims to want to help the puppets and show them how to be clever like him. It quickly becomes clear that he has no intention of helping, and after Red Thing touches his keyboard, he fulfills the "evil" part of the trope by instead trapping the puppets in a digital world where they can't do anything except open doors for eternity.
  • The Food Band from the fifth episode pretend to be friendly, but they ignore everything the main characters say, and it’s heavily implied they tricked Yellow Guy into eating Duck Guy after harvesting the latter’s organs while he was still alive.
• Didger in Dragon Ball Deliverance may act polite and civil, but it's clearly a ruse to hide what a maniac he really is, such as when he asked Pan and Bra their names because he likes to know who his victims are. When he got no response...
  Didger: No response? Well then... UNMARKED GRAVES IT IS!!!
• Dragon Ball Z Abridged:
  • Mr. Popo is interpreted as this in.
  • Freeza was already this in the original, but in Abridged, this aspect is further magnified to make him even more terrifying. LittleKuriboh's magnificent performance helps.
  Frieza: I hear these heroic speeches so wearily often. So I started keeping a mental list of how many times I hear certain lines.
  Namekian Red Shirt: You... you insane bastard!
  Freiza (cheerfully): A hundred and ninety!
  • Imperfect Cell breathes this trope. In his second and especially his Perfect forms, he zigzags between this and being genuinely Affably Evil, as he does have Pet the Dog moments, but is still an Omnicidal Maniac.
• Dreamscape: Ethan and Curien are very chatty and lively...but its only to make them more unnerving.
• Epic Rap Battles of History:
  • Adolf Hitler makes a number of polite requests to Darth Vader, all of which are euphemisms for putting him in a concentration camp. He drops the act during his Villainous Breakdown in the third battle when he shoots Boba Fett because he's mad that Vader keeps beating him.
  • Hannibal Lecter deliberately remains completely calm throughout his battle as part of his attempt to break Jack the Ripper by talking. He almost drops the act when Jack points out he's a fictional character, but manages to compose himself before it's time for his verse.
  • At the end of his second verse, Julius Caesar's voice takes on an eerily calm tone as he tells Shaka Zulu that he's not going to kill Zulu or his tribe; they'll be much more useful as his slaves. The look on his face suggests that he's actually planning what to do after the battle and not just making empty threats as is common in the battles. Earlier, Caesar also responds to Zulu's boasts of having the strength of a lion and the speed of a cheetah with "Ooh, can I be a hyena? Because I'm going to laugh when I pave roads with the bones of your goat-herding ass."
  • Walt Disney ends his rap by gleefully commanding Jim Henson and Stan Lee to "GAZE UPON MY EMPIRE OF JOY!". Said empire being hundreds of oppressed artists being worked to the bone, with the implication that Henson and Lee are soon to join them. In fact, Disney maintains a smile on his face for his entire rap, only stopping to mock his artists for begging him to stop. In keeping with the Disney business model, he's also one of the only rappers in the series who doesn't swear at all.
  • HAL 9000 opens his verse with "I'm sorry, Bill. I'm afraid I can't let you do that." but clearly isn't actually apologetic in the slightest.
• Hat Films, in their Minecraft series Hat Corp, tend to harass the other members of the Yogscast on their respective videos, but do so with a fake sense of politeness.
• Dr. Heiter of Human Centipede: The Musical adopts this demeanor while, among other things, kidnapping, threatening, and murdering people. This is particularly noticeable during his Villain Song.
• In If the Emperor Had a Text-to-Speech Device, Lucius talks like a high-pitched and slightly excited stereotype of a boy band fangirl. Once you start listening to what he's saying, though, he becomes one of the creepiest characters in the show.
  • Playing more into this trope, however, is Asdrubael Vect, who is an absolute smuggernaut of raw evil. Though, considering he's a Dark Eldar, the Archon, in fact, this is given.
• Terrence in KateModern is this 60% of the time (he has a terrible temper, though).
• The French blogger "l'Odieux Connard" (literally, the Heinous Asshole) portrays himself as this in all of his articles.
  '''(After shooting a hipster from his house)"Well, he's still twitching a bit. Listen, Sir, I'm not willing to waste a second bullet for you, so please tune down your grumbling, I would like to sleep with my windows opened, we're in summer!"
• Liruru Von Astaroth, in the MSF High IRC and MSF High forums (backstory only), is somewhere between this and Affably Evil. She, amongst other things, has genuine True Companions, is a kind, gentle ruler of a planet...and is willing to commit millions of murders for her goals, and has, thanks to A Million Is a Statistic.
• Obscured Eyes:
  • Catherine presents herself as a kind, gentle person who loves baking pastries, but behind closed doors, she is an unrepentant psychopath who puts human meat inside the pastries she makes.
  • Mother Mary may appear as a kind, generous mother figure to her cult members, but she is actually a cunning, manipulative woman who drugs the children under her care so they will follow her orders.
• Red vs. Blue:
  • Wyoming fits this to a T. He has a polite, cool-headed and consistent demeanour, though as befitting this trope it's very insincere. Whenever he kills an enemy or victim, he always gives an insincere "sorry".
  • His boss and the main antagonist for the Blood Gulch Chronicles, O'Malley fits this even better. He's a Large Ham that is always entertaining, with an equally fake polite demeanour. Unlike Wyoming, however, he's largely incompetent — until the last part of the fifth season when he almost gets given the opportunity to go all Omnicidal Maniac on everybody's asses.
  • Come Season 12, Felix turns out to be a case of this, with false compliments designed to twist the knife.
• RWBY:
  • Cinder Fall is very charismatic and capable of putting on a polite front as a means of getting what she wants. However, it is all a facade to hide her true sinister nature. When negotiating with Adam and the White Fang, she acts polite and respectful towards him and begrudgingly forces herself to bow in respect when he refuses her offer. However, once she obtains half of the Fall Maiden's power, she returns and slaughters his men to force him to join her plans. When overlooking the chaos in Vale, she revels in the carnage and tells Mercury to record it. As her sanity decays throughout Volume 5, Cinder's polite facade becomes less sincere as more of her sadistic side shines through, seen in her negotiations with Raven where Cinder's politeness is undercut by her thinly-veiled death threats towards her companion-to-be and her tribe.
  • Jacques Schnee, for all his polite talk, refined style and mannerisms and philanthropic efforts, was the man who brought the Schnee Dust Company to the current "morally grey area" of operations with heavy abuse of its workers, human and Faunus alike, covered up by throwing tons of PR efforts on it, — all to satisfy his pure unadulterated Greed. It doesn't help that the SDC is heavily implied to play a part in the Start of Darkness for Adam Taurus, in the end turning him into a genocidal human-hating maniac. And that's before getting to his treatment of his family, which resulted in his wife Willow — whom Jacques married in the first place to get control of her father's company — turning to heavy drinking, and their daughters — first Winter, then Weiss — leaving their Gilded Cage of a home to pursue a career of an army officer and a Huntress respectively.
• The Slender Man Mythos: The Slender Man can come off as either this or just genuinely Affably Evil Depending on the Writer. Both portrayals are quite common due to the suit.
• Turpster tends to behave this way as the murderer in Murder! or Trouble in Terrorist Town.
• The Duke of Francis, in Twig, is superficially kind, polite, respectful of his subordinates (at the price of absolute loyalty) and yet is also a psychotic Blood Knight who in his spare time rearranges people's lives to de-stress.
• The Warp Zone: Dick Richard can put up a façade of genuinely wanting to help those who come to see him like Spider-Man, but the only thing he really gives any crap about is money, quality be damned.
• Lauren Mallard from Welcome to Night Vale. On the surface she seems like a cheerful, friendly woman, but she takes a rather sinister interest in knowing the names of Cecil's loved ones.
• Mimeo of the Whateley Universe. He cheerfully chats with another super, while really setting the guy up to be hunted forever by Mafia hitmen.
• The Death Alpha from Wolf Song: The Movie does do this in one scene. Of course, us as the audience are well aware of the degree of bloodshed and brutality he has caused, but when he speaks with a captive Alador, he starts speaking in a calm demeanour, offering him at least one of his 25+ female subordinates. Alador of course refuses this offer and as a result, the Death Alpha chucks him off a cliff and proceeds to order Cold-Blooded Torture to be put on him. Poor guy
• Worm:
  • Coil is polite, reasonable, and acts friendly, but employs child molesters and murderers, wants to take over a city for no real reason beyond his own egotism, and commits gruesome murders when he's absolutely sure there will be no evidence.
  • Jack Slash also counts. He's always polite and genial, despite having spent twenty years or more leading the Slaughterhouse Nine across North America on a rampage that has seen cities devastated and tens of thousands of men, women, and children tortured and murdered in the most horrible ways he and his companions can think of. He has no reason for this beyond his own enjoyment.

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