Faux Affably Evil / Western Animation

"I love each and every robot most of all... Jerkwad robots make me sick to my ass!"

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• Adventure Time:
  • Despite being a monstrous entity and pure evil, the Lich speaks in a very polite, formal and refined way.
  • Ricardo is friendly and charming, but does nothing to mask his insanity and bloodthirstiness.
  • Dr. Gross is always cheerful and excited, even as she carries out gruesome and inhumane experiments on living subjects.
• In Aladdin: The Series there's Mozenrath, Disney's most charmingly diabolical teenager. "Okay, then. Everybody else expires at dawn, while I blow away Agrabah. Then, say, noon-ish, I return and devise some way to destroy you."
• The Angry Beavers: "The Legend of Kid Friendly" features the titular murderous outlaw, who actually "kills people with kindness". He showers his victims with gifts and hospitality until they keel over and die of sheer bliss. Kid Friendly is only stopped because Daggett won't cheer up no matter what the villain does.
• Arcane: Silco can be charismatic or even charming when he needs something out of a person, but he is a violent criminal at heart with little empathy for others. However, his affability is genuine with Jinx.
• Despite being insane, Barry from Archer is actually friendly and polite, at least until things go wrong. The cheerfulness doesn't even go away while he kills Jakov, which makes him even creepier.
• Professor Tite-Gripp from Atomic Puppet behaves in a calm, polite, and honourable fashion, but as Joey and AP know all too well, it doesn't mean he won't break his promises or outright lie if it benefits him and his evil schemes.
• Avatar: The Last Airbender:
  • The warden of the Earthbender prison rig in "Imprisoned" introduces himself to the prisoners by saying he thinks of them as "honored guests" and hopes they think of him as their "humble and caring host"...and then sentences a prisoner to a week in solitary for coughing, since "What kind of guest dishonors his host by interrupting him?!"
  • Princess Azula is perfectly capable of acting polite as a manipulation tactic, the keyword being "acting", giving a far more sinister edge to almost everything she says. This actually is shown off as both an advantage and a crippling flaw, as outside of situations where she needs to play her opponents like puppets, she is utterly clueless as to how to act.
  • Hama is quite nice to the Gaang, giving them a place to stay and cooking them a large meal with traditional Water Tribe dishes. Once she reveals her true colors, she becomes a sadistic monster who revels in using bloodbending to torture and abduct her victims.
  • Koh the Facestealer from the first season finale is a malevolent spirit who steals the faces of anyone who shows emotion in his presence. When Aang is forced to go to him for advice, Koh alternates between politely giving Aang the information he's after and using the horrifying faces he's stolen to scare Aang into breaking his stoicism.
  Koh: It's been a long time since I've added a child's face to my collection. So, how may I help you?
• Lawrence Lactavius Limburger from Biker Mice from Mars acts polite and sophisticated most of the time, but he's still a greedy bastard who shows absolutely no remorse whatsoever for the planets he devastated and the lives he ruined by stealing resources for his home planet Plutark and frequently attempts to kill the titular Biker Mice whenever they show up to thwart his schemes.
• BoJack Horseman has Joseph Sugarman, a man who at first appears to be a cheerful, well-mannered Standard '50s Father who first gives his son's fellow soldier some money for a snack and asks him to keep the change. Of course, he psychologically abuses his grieving wife and daughter by chastising them for their "womanly emotions" and even lobotomizes the former, all while maintaining the same affable facade.
• In The Boondocks we have Ed Wuncler I and his son Ed Wuncler II. Both of of them are ruthless businessmen and con artists who are very superficially charming, but show their true colors soon after duping people with their predatory business schemes.
• Castlevania (2017):
  • The Bishop is a soft-spoken articulate man, which barely masks what a cruel, deranged, hypocritical and utterly loathsome piece of filth he really is. This is best highlighted when he condemns Lisa to a painful burning, smirking all the way and saying:
    "I believe she's exhorting Satan not to take revenge on us, which I suppose is almost commendable, for a witch. Perhaps I'll say a prayer for her. A small one."
  • Bluefangs speaks in a deep, polite tone, but his words to the Bishop are simply scathing.
• Codename: Kids Next Door: The Delightful Children are freaky insane children who, despite being well-behaved around adults, are incredibly cruel to other children. However, they end up providing some of the most hilarious lines on the show, and they are fan favorites.
• Katz from Courage the Cowardly Dog. A serial killer with a British accent. He always speaks politely even while trying to kill Courage. Really, his catchphrase "Ready for a little sport before dying dear boy?" says it all.
• Dad'X: Foudror can act like he means well as a forefront to his cruelty. In "No Mail for Dad'X", after Foudror kidnaps the elves, he pulls out a red carpet, welcomes them to his "humble cave" and calls them his friends as he invites them to step forward. They aren't fooled, and surely enough, he forces them to hand over the sacks of Christmas letters before locking them in a cell that has a Descending Ceiling with Spikes of Doom.
• In Danny Phantom, Vlad Masters/Plasmius has a polite facade, but underneath is a monster wanting world conquest and to bang the hero's mom.
  • Dark Danny acts likable and charming, but it does nothing to hide his monstrous nature.
• Taurus Bulba the first major and most realistic enemy of Darkwing Duck adopts a rather laid-back tone in his voice and his behaviour when things are going his way so much so that he can lay his arms on his minions shoulders in a friendly and inclusive manner and look genuine despite them cowering in fear of him the rest of the time. Even when he first meets Darkwing he is not hostile in the slightest but merely caustic (and absolutely accurate at that) about DW's egotism. Based on this scene alone he would come across as an amusingly calm Deadpan Snarker Foil in a purely comedic work. It is not ouf of friendliness however but rather out of a cavalier attitude towards the recipients because when the slightest obstacle does get in his way, he immediately stops playing around and gives this direct approach a chilling spin by showing how disposable everyone really is.
  • This is done in the DuckTales reboot as well, as Taurus Bulba is introduced as a young, enthusiastic, and friendly inventor who worked with Dr. Waddlemeyer to create the Ramrod. However, Gosalynn eventually reveals to Darkwing, Launchpad, and Dewey that Bulba is the most likely suspect behind her grandfather's disappearance. While skeptical at first, Darkwing soon learns that she's completely right: Bulba sent Waddlemeyer into another dimension when the latter found out that the Rod was unstable, as he'd worked too long and too hard to let anyone destroy his work. When Scrooge and the triplets tried to stop him, he sent Scrooge into another dimension and locked up the triplets. He then prevented Darkwing from stopping him by bringing the villains from the old Darkwing Duck TV show to life to be his sidekicks.
• Father of the Pride. Sarmoti is known for his sheer annoyance for Larry, constantly butting heads with him. Most notably in "The Siegfried and Roy Fantasy Experience Movie," Sarmoti pretends to offer good advice to Larry, suggesting he forbid Kate from going to her group since Sarmoti explained that the men always laid down the law back in his day. When Larry tells Sarmoti he had followed his advice, Sarmoti reveals that since he dislikes him, he actually gave him the wrong advice intentionally.
• Final Space: Clarence is a very unpleasant man, and he consistently talks like a gentleman even while he's scheming and double-crossing people.
• Mom from Futurama is a ruthless corporate raider and abusive parent who puts on a sweet old lady routine and fat suit for her TV ads. In her first appearance in "A Fishful of Dollars", she drops the act when she finishes cutting a TV ad, and again when Fry gets in her way.
• Van Kleiss from Generator Rex is very charismatic and claims to be fighting to create a better future for EVOs. In reality, his only concern is gaining more power for himself, and he won't hesitate to kill underlings who fail him and doesn't care how much collateral damage his schemes cause.
• God, the Devil and Bob: Despite being the source of all evil in the universe, The Devil can be very polite if he wants something from you, or if you outrank him in the cosmic hierarchy.
• Gravity Falls:
  • Calling Dipper "friend" while trying to cut out his tongue and kill him definitely qualifies Gideon Gleeful for this trope.
  • Preston Northwest can turn on the charm when trying to get something he wants, but it's plainly obvious that he views other people with contempt.
  • Bill Cipher will talk to you in the most cheerful tone possible, while mocking you and ripping a deer's teeth out. The author's entry on him can go from nothing but compliments to a caps lock warning that he's not to be trusted under any circumstances which implies that this is Bill's MO. By playing nice and downplaying his sinister, ulterior motives, he's able to coerce people into going along with his plans without realizing just what they've signed onto.
• Hazbin Hotel: While the demon overlord Alastor can be genuinely affable with people he likes, he can also be outright abusive while maintaining the same cheerful facade, as seen for example in the pilot when he's pushing Vaggie around and coercing Husker. It helps that he never stops smiling for any reason.
• Invincible (2021):
  • Machine Head's upbeat, chummy attitude does nothing to mask what a transparently ruthless mob boss he is. It does contribute to his Laughably Evil nature.
  • D.A. Sinclair is very calm and polite to the people on his operating table who he's about to forcibly "elevate" into a roboticized, lobotomized Reaniman, whilst still throwing in bits of condescension in a much more casual way than when he's being a jerk in civvie public.
• Lucius Heinous VII from Jimmy Two-Shoes portrays himself as an upper-class gentleman who is doing what is best for everyone, but in reality, he's a megalomaniacal sadist whose greatest joy is making everyone around him miserable. He is supposed to be Satan, after all.
• Kipo and the Age of Wonderbeasts:
  • Scarlemagne puts on a facade of being polite and charming, but any sort of setback instantly causes him to reveal just how vicious and cruel he actually is.
  • Tad Mulholland presents himself as a very friendly guy who is simply trying to release the body from the mind and let people have nice dreams where they have everything they want. He seems however, fully aware that they're just going to become food for him, and drops the facade a few times.
  • Doctor Emilia is fully dedicated to her mission to save humanity and help humans live on the surface again... which she intends to do by reverting all Mutes to normal animals, destroying their minds in the process. And if anyone, human or otherwise, stands in her way, she'll kill them with little to no regret (which she did to her own brother when he questioned her goals). That said, she gains the loyalty of the former members of the Clover Burrow by acting like a caring, fearless leader who only wants the best for everyone. It was only when she dropped the facade that the other humans started to realize that Kipo was right about her.
• Kuvira from Last Airbender's Sequel Series The Legend of Korra is the quintessential Villain with Good Publicity and acts stern but infallibly polite in public, often to keep that good publicity. She even acts like A Mother to Her Men to her troops, telling them that she wouldn't put them through things she wouldn't go through herself. However, the facade only holds as long as things go her way or her subordinates do what she says. The moment something goes wrong or someone slights her, her temper disintegrates, the mask comes off, and out come the threats of a re-education camp. Bolin and Varrick learn this the hard way, as does her fiancé Baatar Jr.
• Looney Tunes: Wile E. Coyote behaves like this when he goes after Bugs Bunny. A perfect example of this occurs in "Operation: Rabbit".
  Wile E.: Allow me to introduce myself. My name is Wile E. Coyote, genius. I'm not selling anything nor am I working my way through college. So let's get down to cases: you are a rabbit, and I'm going to eat you for supper. Now, don't try to get away. I'm more muscular, more cunning, faster and larger than you are, and I'm a genius, while you could hardly pass the entrance examinations to kindergarten. (Bugs looks bored and yawns) So, I'll give you the customary two minutes to say your prayers.
  Bugs: I'm sorry, mac, the lady of the house ain't home, and besides, we mailed you people a check last week. (goes down into his rabbit hole)
  Wile E.: (returning to his den) Why do they always want to do it the hard way?
  • Marvin the Martian embodies this trope. Rarely raised his voice and was very matter-of-fact about his motives to destroy the world. Chuck Jones wanted to make a new enemy for Bugs who was the exact opposite of Yosemite Sam: quiet, polite, but incredibly dangerous. Marvin can actually be either this or genuinely Affably Evil depending on his current motive, since he generally never holds any genuine malice in his actions. In his better moments or when he's not doing any evil, he can be very affable. In his more malevolent goals though, this blase attitude can actually make him seem worse, like whenever he wants to destroy Earth simply because it blocks his view of Venus, during which he always treats the act of murdering billions of people for an incredibly juvenile reason as if he's taking out the garbage.
  • Witch Hazel is more dangerous than the usual Looney Tunes villain, but she bears her victims no malice, and is so ebullient that it's impossible to hate her.
• Due to their reliance on random humor and excessive Comedic Sociopathy, a lot of characters in Seth McFarlane's shows come off this way due to lacking consistent noble or redeeming qualities.
  • American Dad!:
    • Roger may be the king of this trope, however; he has an extreme Lack of Empathy that shows an indifference for his family and friends' well being, and frequently commits all sorts of callous or outright murderous acts for minor indulgences or offenses, and so it goes without saying that he is a fan favorite.
    • This trope was also played perfectly with Steve's friend Barry turning out to be conniving, cunning and British; this is thus extended when he forces others to perform trivial things (such as play board games) at gunpoint. He is a completely different person with his meds. Two points go to Santa Clause in Christmas episodes. Still thinking of the Jolly Ol' Saint Nick when we hear that name? This version of the character is not so jolly, at all.
  • Family Guy:
    • Carter Pewterschmidt, father of Lois. Proud to be an asshole, he uses his mass fortune to be a Jerkass to people — yes, that includes orphans. Yet, he's a fun guy and a kid at heart.
    • Let's not leave Peter Griffin out as well, he's a close second to Roger, with his mental disability as a poor excuse.
    • Prior to the mass Flanderization of the cast, Stewie was cast as a psychotic mastermind determined to take over the world and kill anyone who gets in his way (particularly his mother), usually making for some of the show's earliest laugh-out-loud moments. Granted, as time passed in the show, Stewie's personality calmed and he gained redeeming aspects, ironically making him one of the few genuinely sympathetic characters in the show.
• My Life as a Teenage Robot: Vexus is usually very polite to Jenny, which is more creepy than if she isn't, considering her one-sided obsession with her.
• My Little Pony: Friendship Is Magic has a few examples:
  • Double Subverted in the case of the fake Princess Cadance in "A Canterlot Wedding". Queen Chrysalis impersonated Princess Cadance feed off her fiancé Shining Armor's love. Everyone fell for her impersonation except for Twilight, who spent the entire wedding planning trying to prove it to everyone else. Eventually, when she does reveal her to everyone, Cadance breaks down in tears, and Shining Armor gives Twilight a The Reason You Suck speech, along with disproving her false accusations. After everyone leaves in disgust, Twilight bows her head in apology... just as Queen Chrysalis teleports her away to the cave.
  Queen Chrysalis: You will be.
  • Tirek acts like this, politely chatting with Discord and congratulating him on escaping his stone prison, seeming to form a genuine Villainous Friendship with him. He shows his true colors when he betrays Discord and drains him of magic.
  • Sunset Shimmer has moments of this. She could chat casually with Twilight while smugly threatening her.
  • Similar to Sunset Shimmer, Starlight Glimmer was also this during her time as a villain, acting all cheery and friendly in public while hiding a Psychotic Smirk. When she loses her cool, she lashes out.
  • Cozy Glow acts all cute and lovable while being an evil brat who wants to take over Equestria. She acts all innocent while plotting a coup.
  • To a lesser extent, the minor antagonists Flim and Flam from later in the series fit this trope.
• Pantheon: Mr. Prasad, who acts patient and rational while he's having a terrified Chanda's brain sliced open to be digitized, and telling him of the failed test subjects he went through behind his back.
• The Perils of Penelope Pitstop: Sylvester Sneekly puts on the facade of a kind and caring guardian to the titular heroine. Even as The Hooded Claw he never loses his cool and remains calm and composed even as he explains to Penelope in great detail how his perils work, using terms around her such as "my dear sweet Penelope" only breaking the calm when his perils fail or to take out his anger on his henchmen, and even then his snarky tone remains. Even as Sneekly he gives off very subtle hints to Penelope that HE IS The Hooded Claw and she still doesn't get it because she's a Wide-Eyed Idealist and would never think her guardian would be such a horrible man.
• The Powerpuff Girls has a couple examples:
  • Despite being sophisticated and polite on the surface, Him has a huge ego and enjoys other people's suffering.
  • One-shot villain Dick Hardly is even worse-he acts nice at first, but is quickly revealed to be a hateful psychopath who only cares about lining his pockets.
• In Reboot, Megabyte's sophisticated mannerisms and pretense of wanting to conquer Mainframe/the entire Net to establish order all hide his true predatory nature. He fully becomes this as of Season 2. While still polite and Wicked Cultured, he's also more vicious, doing such things as gleefully torturing Hexadecimal and being willing to sacrifice his own minions to get what he wants. The few times he drops the act, he's a snarling monster.
• Regular Show:
  • The talking hot dogs in "Meat Your Maker" at first seem friendly and offer to guide Mordecai and Rigby out of the meat locker if they take them to the barbecue "where (they) can be eaten"... which turns out to be a trap set up for them and their friends to eat THEM instead!
  • In "Dizzy", Pops falls into a dream world after passing out from spinning too much and meets a crowd of citizens who hate speeches and love ice cream, led by a realistic-looking blue jay and raccoon named Iacedrom and Ygbir, who seem friendly at first. However, after Pops breaks their law by (unintentionally) giving a speech, they go crazy and try to eat him.
  • The episode "Temp Check" introduces an otter named Doug whom Rigby hires as a temp to do his job while he gets a meatball sub. He seems friendly at first... until he turns out to be a wanted doppelganger who wants to take over Rigby's life!
  • In the episode "Bet to Be Blonde", after Rigby cheats on a bet and Mordecai wears his character's blonde haircut, he starts hanging out with a group of blondes. At first, they seem like very friendly, regular guys who have the same interests as Mordecai - video games, movies, tacos, and other cool stuff. However, they eventually turn out to be an evil secret club that "blonds outsiders to death", and try to kill both Rigby and Mordecai when the latter reveals his blonde haircut was actually a wig.
  • In the second installment in the "Terror Tales of the Park" series of Halloween Specials, Benson's story, "Wallpaper Man", introduces Jan, who on the surface seems like a really nice, ordinary man who offers to wallpaper the house for free... but turns out to be a gigantic man-eating spider!
• Everyone in the Public Service Announcement The Return of Count Spirochete, especially The Grim Reaper.
• Samurai Jack:
  • On the surface, Aku is a comedic, likeable villain, to the point of being able to have comic and civil conversations with other people, including his Arch-Enemy Jack. But, being Made of Evil, he is also a monstrous brute who loves to inflict as much pain as possible on other people.
  • The High Priestess from Season 5 as well. She's rather refined, classy and formal for a violent, Abusive Mom.
  • Scaramouche speaks very politely with Jack and is portrayed as a very charismatic, Laughably Evil robot...after he just massacred an entire village and is about to try and kill Jack.
• Darth Vader in the Robot Chicken sketches, especially in the "Dinner with Vader" sketch. Also, the evil little girl from the "Pegasus Abuse" sketch, who is a mood swinging brat who acts very sweet to a pegasus...before violently chopping off his wings so she can redecorate him to look like a giant My Little Pony. She proceeds to call him her "bestest friend", before repeatedly whipping him until he accepts his new name of "Sunny Muffins".
• The Simpsons:
  • Mr. Montgomery Burns. Though, granted, Depending on the Writer Mr. Burns can be Affably Evil.
  • Usually, Principal Skinner is among the most comically serious characters, but in the "Treehouse of Horror V" story "Nightmare Cafeteria", Skinner's uptight nature actually adds to his creepiness while he has his students get killed off for food.
• Sonic the Hedgehog:
  • The Adventures of Sonic the Hedgehog version of Dr. Robotnik counts. Though his villainy is normally ineffective and taken quite lightly, some of his actions and schemes can seem pretty extreme when you think about it. If he were competent enough, he could possibly be rather hellish.
• South Park:
  • Saddam Hussein. As he often says;
  "Hey, buddy, relax, take a load off."
  • Played with Eric Cartman,: He's usually portrayed as a straightforward Jerkass, but he's willing to act nice to get what he wants. Even so, there are times when he can't even do that, instead using pity to manipulate people.
• SpongeBob SquarePants:
  • Mr. Krabs, thanks to the show's Flanderization and the reliance on Comedic Sociopathy in later seasons. While he occasionally is still nice to SpongeBob and acts as a mentor, like in the early seasons (when not swindling him), his greed went up to eleven. Such as serving his customers with spoiled or super-greasy food just to make an extra buck, torturing Plankton to the point where he is nearly Driven to Suicide, framing SpongeBob, and making SpongeBob's pet, Gary, into a money magnet even though it's painful to the snail. All this said, he would have been labeled as a monster if it wasn't for the show's Negative Continuity and the Played for Laughs nature of the portrayal of his villainy.
  • Plankton can also be this. He could actually have a nice and friendly demeanor towards other characters, but it’s clear that he just wants to further advance his goal, namely getting the Krabby Patty formula. He fully becomes this in the movie. He could bounce between this and genuinely Affably Evil, Depending on the Writer, sometimes legitimately friendlier than his rival, Krabs, and sometimes only pretending to be.
• Star Wars: The Clone Wars: Count Dooku likes to keep up a veneer of polite disinterest and mild concern for his adversaries inconveniences, but is ruthless and sadistic.
• Star vs. the Forces of Evil: Toffee is almost always calm, collected, and well-spoken, coming across more like a lawyer or a business man than a villain. But in a cast of Harmless Villains and Anti Villains, he stands out as a completely cold-blooded, and vicious Chessmaster. If anything, his formality and politeness only make him creepier, and his Villainous Breakdown more shocking.
• Storm Hawks:
  • The Colonel presents himself as polite and cultured, but it doesn't disguise what a nasty, slimy piece of work he is.
  • Moss the Cyclonian prison warden comes off as polite and cheerful when pursuing Aerrow, but there's no mistake that he's not going to go easy on the young Sky Knight if he catches him.
• M. Bison from Street Fighter. At least he tries to be polite when talking about how he murdered everyone's fathers.
• In Street Sharks, Dr. Paradigm manages to hide his various acts of kidnapping, thievery, unethical experimentation, and attempted murder by using a public image as the only one to save the town from the evil shark mutants running around. There's also the first episode, where he has the four protagonists kidnapped and Strapped to an Operating Table and tries to have a lighthearted conversation about what he'll be doing to them.
• The Owl House:
  • Emperor Belos rarely drops his polite, dignified manner of speaking even when making it clear he plans on murdering whoever he's speaking with. One example is when Lilith comes back after another failed attempt at capturing Eda and he doesn't change his friendly tone even as he threatens to have her stripped of her rank and petrified. Taken to its most extreme when he acts similarly polite to Hunter and Luz upon finding them in his Mindscape, even after he reveals the former is the latest in a long line of Expendable Clones and shares his genocidal ambitions with the latter all while trying to kill them.
  • Belos, back when he was still known as Phillip Wittebane came off as a harmless scholar, who is genuinely interested in learning from you and who you can have a long, fascinating conversation with. However, as Lillith points out, he was almost too agreeable, almost like he was telling you exactly what you want to hear. Indeed, it turned out he manipulated people to get what he wanted and then engineered their deaths when he didn't need them anymore.
  • Terra Snapdragon is a seemingly grandmotherly but sadistic old woman who is basically Dolores Umbridge if she lived to be eighty.
  • Odalia Blight is a charismatic saleswoman who is also an amoral weapons dealer, emotionally abusive mother and willing to murder children.
• Gibbs from Titan Maximum is irredeemably evil, but undeniably funny at the same time. Then again, the show comes from the creators of Robot Chicken, so it's practically a given.
• Total Drama:
  • Of all the contestants on the show, Alejandro is probably the biggest example. He appears to be a charming gentleman who loves the ladies (and they love him), but in reality, he is a cruel and heartless bastard of unparalleled greed and selfishness who sees women as playthings to break and then toss away. That being said, outside of his debut season, he acts more Affably Evil instead in comparison to the other villains, particularly in Total Drama All Stars.
  • Scott appears to be nothing more than a simple country boy who manages to befriend some of his teammates as a result, but his Chronic Backstabbing Disorder makes it evident that it's all an act.
  • Mal. Being the Superpowered Evil Side of the cheerful and good-natured Mike makes it easy to hide the fact you're a sadist who enjoys causing mayhem For the Evulz (especially when you can do an absurdly good impression of him).
  • Scarlett looks and behaves like a shy and polite nerdy girl. But even before "Scarlett Fever", hints are scattered here and there of her true identity as a cold-hearted and mentally unstable Evil Genius.
  • The host Chris McLean counts too. Don't let his chill and charismatic Surfer Dude demeanour fool you, the man is as psychopathic as a serial killer and megalomaniacal as a third-world dictator.
  • The Ice Dancers from Total Drama Presents: The Ridonculous Race act like sweetness and light because (being Olympians) there's always a chance they're on camera. It's all an act.
• In the Transformers franchise:
  • Beast Wars Megatron, an elegant, clear-spoken and charming take on the character...who casually treats his minions like expendable chaff and demonstrates over the course of Beast Wars and Beast Machines that very little is beyond him when it comes to evil.
  • Animated Megatron is no less eloquent than his Beast Wars counterpart... and no less monstrous either, what with his many heinous plans to subjugate Earth and Cybertron under his cruel reign, torturing the Constructicons into being Decepticons, and sacrificing his own troops for the sake of his goals. If anything, his unflappable demeanor only serves to make him more terrifying.
  • G1, Animated and Prime Starscream, who, no matter what the continuity, puts on a facade of loyalty but is at heart a petty, selfish backstabber.
  • Beast Machines Jetstorm, or rather the Jetstorm persona - his true self, beneath the shell program, is another story.
  • Sideways from Armada and Cybertron pretends to be chummy with both sides so he can backstab them more easily.
  • Dr. Morocco from Rescue Bots.
  • Airachnid from Transformers: Prime is known for speaking in a calm, polite, and seductive tone as she goes about stalking and murdering her victims for her sick pleasure.
• The Venture Bros. has many examples, such as the Wicked Cultured Phantom Limb who will maintain a polite and gentle attitude while he murders you with a simple touch.

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