History Main / BitchinSheepsClothing

* Aphrodite is actually a better candidate. Looks like the BrainlessBeauty, and seemingly too innocent to perpetrate a single evil act. But she regularly runs the gamut from [[{{Jerkass}} petty and mean]] to pure evil. But just like Hera, there are also times, depending on the version and the city-state that it originated from, that Aphrodite [[PetTheDog actually showed compassion]], but good luck spotting them in between her mean outbursts.

* From [[Myth/ClassicalMythology Greek Mythology]], Hera in all depictions. Queen of the Gods! Goddess of Marriage! Nice entity, right? Wrong -- many, ''many'' of the myths involving her focus on her utter wrath toward the children of her husband ([[BrotherSisterIncest and brother]]) Zeus, who slept around on her ''[[AnythingThatMoves all the]] [[ExtremeOmnisexual damned time]]'', the biggest example of this being Heracles, who Hera sent two snakes to kill ''as a baby'' on top of other wrathful acts when he came of age. That being said, there are times that Hera actually got things right; why don't you ask Medea on how it turns out for Jason betraying her marriage?

See also: DevilInPlainSight, VillainWithGoodPublicity, WartsAndAll, FalseInnocenceTrick, and ConfoundThemWithKindness. TheFakeCutie is a subtrope where the (usually young) bitch tries to invoke cuteness or childlike innocence. The TroublemakingNewPet is a related trope where someone takes in a new pet, only to learn that the pet is a huge troublemaker or outright evil and gets rid of it afterward once discovered. A RomanticFalseLead is [[DerailingLoveInterests often like this.]] The EnfantTerrible is also a related trope (possibly the AnnoyingYoungerSibling with SiblingRivalry from Hell). EvilAllAlong is a subtrope comprised of purely villainous examples. JumpingOffTheSlipperySlope is for characters who are already morally shady before they commit an unambiguously evil act. For a version specifically concerning actors and actresses, see NiceCharacterMeanActor. For a more extreme version of this trope, see BaitTheDog, where the 'bitch', oddly enough, likes to KickTheDog.

* Set It Off has a song called "Wolf In Sheep's Clothing", which talks about someone who manipulates people and poses as a nice person.

* ''Webcomic/BetweenYearningAndObsession'': Julia is in love with Camille since he’s the only person to treat her so kindly as opposed to the bullying she suffers from jealous servants and brother, but she does want to trouble him with the knowledge that she’s tormented. Little to her knowledge, Camille knows she’s bullied, but he’s also a major {{Yandere}} who finds her at the peak of her beauty when she’s at her most miserable. To him this means she’ll cling onto him more so he looks the other way.

* ''WebAnimation/MangaWaido'':
** ''[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9RjgmhgDfrM My girlfriend falls onto the ground with a red arm as a lady screams at her!]]'': Aya seems like a NiceGirl who loves Fuyuki, but a later scuffle of hers with a waitress reveals it's a farce: Turns out Aya [[spoiler:slept with her former boss and the waitress is the ex-wife's younger sister. Said sister wished to hold her accountable for hurting her older sister and reveals Aya's true nature to Fuyuki by playing a recording of Aya's conversation with her, where she tried to justify herself until she switches to ''gloating'' about being prettier than the ex-wife. Fuyuki leaves Aya at the beach and breaks up with her afterward.]]
** ''[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-n97iCorTSs I saved Nezuko, but then an angry Shinobu Kocho appeared, and...]]'': Maika seemed to be a nice girl as Junta saw her help deaf classmate Michiru while both of them cosplayed as [[Manga/DemonSlayerKimetsuNoYaiba Shinobu Kocho and Nezuko Kamado]], respectively. However, she actually despised Michiru for being cuter than her.
** ''[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JZXgSpDaPPc My two faced girlfriend broke up with me because I'm poor but then]]'': Ayaka Noguchi acts like a nice woman towards her boyfriend Shinji, but she shows her true personality after she finds out that he was raised by his mother, causing her to break up with him under the assumption that he was poor and she tries to brag to him about being married to a rich guy.
** ''[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l4RQ-0CEi5c Just when she thought she aced the interview, they said her resume was full of lies?!]]'': Natsuki Tanaka seemed to be a nice, elegant lady until her job interview, where Akino-san reveals she was a high-school bully of his and college dropout who routinely caused a stir, and even harassed his girlfriend. Thus he rejects her job request and turned her away, and told his business partners about it. She still causes a stir by throwing a potted plant in a fit of anger, which led to him calling the cops on her.

* ''WebAnimation/MoniRobo'':
** [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1Stsg2YpfWU Ayane]] may seem like a nice and hardworking girl but it's all an act and she forces her workload on her subordinates.
** [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EccE-xl2eWE Kayoko]] seemed to be a kind woman to Tatsuya and even his autistic daughter Minori, who instantly liked her. However, she changed her demeanor upon marriage, and eventually, [[spoiler:the housekeeper Mrs. Takeda revealed that Kayoko started abusing Minori behind his back.]]

** Specifically, Ron is this. Joe lists several of Ron's abuses, and says he's a complete psychopath, "...but when that man was on your side you really felt something special." During Joe's parents' first visit he's amicable and personable to Joe's parents, but when they leave the room, Ron smugly tells Joe that [[PoliticallyIncorrectVillain he thinks Joe's dad is a closet homosexual and that his mother is a slut]]. The final irony is Ron's giving a speech at Joe's "graduation" that Joe's mother finds ''so'' touching that it sends her into dramatic hysterics; and his last words to Joe are a hollow, "You are enough."

* ''WebAnimation/MangaSoprano'':
** [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CEuNvrA_x2E Mariko]] may seem like a nice drama club leader. In reality she is a rude {{Jerkass}} who constantly shoots down Akari's dream to be on the stage and be a playwright. After she humiliated Akari after seemingly giving her a chance to do her own play, Erica exposed her real personality when she uploaded a video of her dissing a fan when he left.
** [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k30nO8BXuU4 Mayu]] dated a guy named Hiro, of which Kairi told Ram he was a shady guy. Turns out [[spoiler:Hiro only dated Mayu to make her work in a cabaret, of which Ram and Kairi exposed]].
* In the Travel Channel website-original animation "[[Series/NoReservations Anthony Bourdain's]] Alternative Universe", we see a fictional side of travel hostess Samantha Brown we don't normally see on the air, in the episode "Romanian Rhapsody". Seeing the burned corpse of the fictional Anthony Bourdain, she goes, "Yeah, NOW who's laughing, funny man?" Sam kicks the head off the body, then gets an evil look on her face as she goes, "Guess that 10:00-time slot [[PunctuatedForEmphasis just. became. AVAILABLE.]]" Spouting off to a nearby cameraman, she tells him when she's calmer, "Go get the head and send it to Creator/{{Rachael|Ray}}. She'll appreciate it." One final rant, and then she gets the clapboard in front of her face. Once the clapper comes down, she's her normal smiling self again.

* In the Travel Channel website-original animation "[[Series/NoReservations Anthony Bourdain's]] Alternative Universe", we see a fictional side of travel hostess Samantha Brown we don't normally see on the air, in the episode "Romanian Rhapsody". Seeing the burned corpse of the fictional Anthony Bourdain, she goes, "Yeah, NOW who's laughing, funny man?" Sam kicks the head off the body, then gets an evil look on her face as she goes, "Guess that 10:00-time slot [[PunctuatedForEmphasis just. became. AVAILABLE.]]" Spouting off to a nearby cameraman, she tells him when she's calmer, "Go get the head and send it to Creator/{{Rachael|Ray}}. She'll appreciate it." One final rant, and then she gets the clapboard in front of her face. Once the clapper comes down, she's her normal smiling self again.

** [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7vZEwG57NWM Habumi]] seems like a NiceGirl at first glance, but it's actually an act. She is the queen bee of the class and no one can say no to her, especially Suzuka, whom she forced to attend a pool party in order to embarrass her and have Shouya all to herself

* ''WesternAnimation/{{Zootopia}}'' has a [[spoiler:literal sheep]] case with [[spoiler:Assistant Mayor Dawn Bellwether]]. At first, she appears as the only ally and friend [[RighteousRabbit Judy]] has when she joins the ZPD and even helps her in one instance that cracks open Judy's case. [[spoiler: All the better to frame her superior, Mayor Lionheart, for the disappearance of various animals who [[HatePlague have gone "savage"]] and being herself the mastermind behind aforementioned condition to initiate prejudice/discrimination and most likely war between preys and predators.]]

* From [[Myth/ClassicalMythology Greek Mythology]], Hera in pretty much all depictions. Queen of the Gods! Goddess of Marriage! Nice entity, right? Wrong -- many, ''many'' of the myths involving her focus on her utter wrath toward the children of her husband ([[BrotherSisterIncest and brother]]) Zeus, who slept around on her ''[[AnythingThatMoves all the]] [[ExtremeOmnisexual damned time]]'', the biggest example of this being Heracles, who Hera sent two snakes to kill ''as a baby'' on top of other wrathful acts when he came of age. That being said, there are times that Hera actually got things right; why don't you ask Medea on how it turns out for Jason betraying her marriage?

* In Literature/TheBible the reader is warned not to trust every teacher and prophet that appears to be telling you the truth and/or spinning some ground-breaking message, but instead, you must test their genuine nature. Just to illustrate how easy this can happen, it's pointed out that even Satan is capable of [[LightIsNotGood appearing as an angel of light]]; basically, things that look beautiful can actually be out to destroy you.

* In ''TabletopGame/{{Exalted}}'', the [[https://web.archive.org/web/20101010080122/http://forums.white-wolf.com/cs/blogs/freelancers/archive/2010/04/09/ink-monkeys-vol-10-black-claw-style.aspx Black Claw Style]] of Supernatural Martial Arts is based entirely around this concept; most of the techniques of the style are variations on the WoundedGazelleGambit, and the final Charm in the style is a powerful attack that becomes unblockable, undodgeable, and even more powerful if its target is someone who genuinely loves the user of the style.
* In the game ''TabletopGame/SecretHitler'', the majority of Fascist wins come not from passing six Fascist policies, but from getting Hitler elected Chancellor after three Fascist policies are enacted. As such, this is basically required of the Hitler player - pass yourself off as a perfectly normal, cooperative Liberal up until the third Fascist policy is on the table, then begin angling for the Chancellorship.

* In ''Theatre/TheLittleFoxes'', Regina puts on a particularly charming SouthernBelle act for Mr. Marshall, and she plays the fact for her husband is seriously ill for some extra sympathy. However, her caring and polite manner is a façade for an ambition even more ruthless than her brothers, and when Horace does come home to her (because she demanded it), her attitude towards him rapidly deteriorates from passive-aggressive needling to literally telling him, "I hope you die. I hope you die soon."
* In ''{{Theatre/Heathers}}'', [[spoiler:JD]] acts kindly to Veronica at first [[spoiler:and even acts as a love interest to her. Turns out, [[ManipulativeBastard he was manipulating Veronica into killing the other students at their school.]]]]

* ''Webcomic/{{Drowtales}}'': Snadhya'Rune comes across as a ditzy Napoleon Bonaparte; power-hungry but willing to aid the common masses in exchange for her absolute rule. Basically, she states her liberal-idealist intentions and has every possible threat to her rule slowly obliterated through war, betrayal, and propaganda. Until the ''clusterfuck'' that is Chapter 46: [[spoiler:After being injured for the first time ever in the comic, she breaks the masquerade and freaks the fuck out, murdering everyone within a ten-yard radius. And may have destroyed her castle in a fit of rage if not for Mel's intervention. Later, her firstborn daughter Kalki is busy trying to use the airship to lay waste to Ariel's squad. She proceeds to destroy Kalki's physical body by using a magical grenade that manifests as ripper hands. And call her a faulty tool]]. Hemophobic ''bitch'' is an understatement.

* ''Webcomic/MyDeepestSecret'': Sophie. She was behind a lot of Emma's troubles, like the video of Yohan and her that spread around the school, and even pushed her into a river. All the while, she'd been acting like a friend.

** On another note, Doguk, who Yura wants, hates her for this reason, as he is able to see through her facade. It puts him off, especially because she reminds him of his BigBrotherBully Jeongwuk, another BISC [[JerkassToOne who is kind to everyone else but relishes in Doguk’s suffering]].

* ''WebAnimation/AttackOnMika'': [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IHGAE47yGCY Mina]] may seem like a nice and cute girl but it is in fact all an act to use the boys. When the boys bungle saving her from drowning, she swears at the boys inadvertently revealing her true self. The boys stopped talking to her after that.

* ''WebAnimation/EpithetErased'' has this downplayed with Molly. It is less that she is "malevolent underneath a kindly act" as she is "mostly cynical and angry underneath a kindly act", being far more skilled at manipulating others for her own benefit than any child her age should be. Most of her actions throughout the Museum Arc are her tricking people into helping her and [[BigBrotherMentor Giovanni]], right down to emotional manipulation of Sylvie, and WordOfGod states that Molly probably would be on track to become an ''actual'' villain if it wasn't for Giovanni taking her under his wing.

* ''{{Machinima/Anon}}'': Lilly seems like a harmless wallflower at first, but then goes on to reveal her hobbies of stalking popular students on social media and impersonating her former best friend online in an attempt to make everyone hate her.

* ''[[Machinima/Supermarioglitchy4sSuperMario64Bloopers SMG4]]'': [[MeaningfulName Saiko]] [[PunnyName Bich]][[AlphaBitch itaru]]. At first, she's just a love interest in a typical VisualNovel, but she starts becoming more and more clingy towards Fishy Boopkins. [[spoiler: When Fishy Boopkins breaks up with her, she has Wario and Waluigi build a mech for her so she can kill him.]]

* ''WesternAnimation/{{Megamind}}'': Hal Stewart acts like a decent guy to Roxanne, but in truth, he's rather possessive of her, as shown with his meeting with "Bernard" (who is actually Megamind in disguise). Once he receives his powers and is rejected by Roxanne, he reveals himself to be an unstable psychopath.

* Fairy Godmother from ''WesternAnimation/Shrek2''. We assume all fairy godmothers are nice, kind, and friendly -- this one definitely is not. Point in case, she has no qualms about resorting to trickery and extortion to get what she wants; in this case, the crown of Far Far Away. She intended to have her son rescue and marry Fiona to put him on the throne and reign as queen mother. This doesn't go according to plan as Fiona fell in love with Shrek, thus the Fairy Godmother attempts to get rid of him, either by blackmailing Harold into getting rid of Shrek or by using Shrek's own feelings to manipulate him into thinking Fiona doesn't really want to be with him. When Fiona didn't fall in love with Charming on her own, she decided to drug her with a potion so that she would marry Charming. [[spoiler: Then when it's revealed Harold never gave Fiona the potion, Fairy Godmother then snaps and resorts to kill Shrek and Fiona.]]

* Grimhild in Myth/NorseMythology. She made Sigurd forget about Brynhildr so that her own daughter Gudrun could marry Sigurd. This ends up getting both Brynhildr, Sigurd, Sigurd and Gudrun's son and Grimhild's youngest son killed. Then she forces her daughter to marry Brynhildr's brother despite that he may want to kill Gudrun's brothers in revenge. Grimhild herself gets away.

* ''WebAnimation/{{Voodont}}'': Ellie at first appears to be a sweet and innocent cheerleader in contrast to the {{Jerkass}} that Sam is. The VoodooDoll that Sam makes even sees her as such and attempts to warn her about what Sam plans to do to her. [[spoiler:However, when it finally gets the chance to tell her, Ellie just calls her a gross little thing and swats her away. Upon seeing how mean Ellie actually is, The doll tears its own arm off, resulting in [[GoryDiscretionShot Ellie's painfully coming off off-screen]].]]

** Yura Han acts all sweet and lovable, but underneath her sunny smile is an {{Entitled B|astard}}itch who bullies her stepsister by deliberating [[AlwaysSomeoneBetter outshining her at everything]] and stealing her inheritance. She evens convinces her own HopelessSuitor to marry Iju, knowing the suitor is actually desperately in love with herself, because she wants Iju to suffer in an AwfulWeddedLife.
** On another note, Doguk, who Yura wants, hates her for this reason, as he is able to see through her facade. It puts him off especially because she reminds him of his BigBrotherBully, Jeongwuk, another BISC [[JerkassToOne who is kind to everyone else, but relishes in Doguk’s suffering]].