History Main / EvilBrit

** Ironically, Shrek himself was [[SubvertedTrope initially portrayed]] as being a genuinely antisocial ogre (something that he lived through again in ''WesternAnimation/ShrekForeverAfter'', at least temporarily) who speaks with a Scottish accent, and this ain't the first time that his voice actor Creator/MikeMyers (who is actually Canadian himself) has played a character [[Film/AustinPowersTheSpyWhoShaggedMe who speaks with that kind of accent]].

* ''Film/SororityRow'': [[spoiler:Andy Richards, Cassidy Tappan's boyfriend, was revealed to be the weapon-wielding guy behind the dark graduation cloak who [[AllAbusersAreMale primarily targets Theta Pi]], initially for his girlfriend to not be persecuted with the abrupt death of Megan from a prank that was set by the girls themselves.]]

* Both the Fairy Godmother and her son Prince Charming from the ''Franchise/{{Shrek}}'' franchise are not only immoral adaptations of their respective original sources, but were also voiced by British actors (specifically, Creator/JenniferSaunders and Creator/RupertEverett respectively).

* ''Film/SororityRow'': [[spoiler:Andy Richards, Cassidy Tappan's boyfriend, was revealed to be the weapon-wielding giy behind the dark graduation cloak who [[AllAbusersAreMale primarily targets Theta Pi]], initially for his girlfriend to not be persecuted with the abrupt death of Megan from a prank that was set by the girls themselves.]]

** Ironically, Shrek himself was [[SubvertedTrope initially portrayed]] as being a genuinely antisocial ogre (something that he lived through again in ''WesternAnimation/ShrekForeverAfter'', at least temporarily) who speaks with a Scottish accent, and this ain't the first time that his voice actor Creator/MikeMyers (who is Canadian himself) has played a character [[Film/AustinPowersTheSpyWhoShaggedMe who speaks with that kind of accent]].

* ''Film/SororityRow'': [[spoiler:Andy Richards, Cassidy Tappan's boyfriend, was revealed to be the man behind the dark valedictorian cloak who [[AllAbusersAreMale primarily targets Theta Pi]] in order to prevent her from being persecuted with the death of Megan.]]

** ''Film/{{Braveheart}}'' portrays the heroic struggle of the Scots against the evil English.

* ''Film/HotFuzz'': The entire Neighborhood Watch Alliiance, which was lead by [[spoiler:Frank Butterman, Danny's own father]], is full of Brits who have the main purpose of making their residence of Sanford win the "Village of the Year" award by eliminating those who were deemed as being socially "[[{{Irony}} imperfect]]" for the town (which they deemed as being for the "[[{{Hypocrite}} greater good]]").

* The Egyptians in ''WesternAnimation/ThePrinceOfEgypt'' have British accents (and are played by some very fine English actors), while the Hebrews are "Americans". Moses also has an American accent despite having grown up in the Egyptian royal family.

* In ''WesternAnimation/{{Cars 2}}'', the mastermind behind the Lemons' terrorist plot is [[spoiler:Sir Miles Axlerod, who's voiced by Creator/EddieIzzard, no less]].

* Both the Fairy Godmother and her son Prince Charming from the ''Franchise/{{Shrek}}'' franchise are not only immoral adaptations of their respective original sources, but were also voiced by British actors, (specifically, Creator/JenniferSaunders and Creator/RupertEverett respectively).
%%* Principal Revenant from Monster High.

* In ''WesternAnimation/{{Cars 2}}'', the mastermind behind the Lemons' plot is [[spoiler: Sir Miles Axlerod, who's voiced by Creator/EddieIzzard, no less.]]
* Creator/JohnHurt as The Horned King in Disney's film adaptation of ''WesternAnimation/TheBlackCauldron''. The heroes also have British accents, however.

* In ''WesternAnimation/QuestForCamelot'', The BigBad Ruber is voiced by the British actor Creator/GaryOldman.

* ''Film/JohnnyEnglishReborn'' (which is ironically part of a film series that primarily parodies the ''James Bond'' franchise) has Simon Ambrose, who, despite being a prolific agent of [=MI7=], also works for Vortex, an organization of suspicious assassins, in which he is one of their founding members.

* ''Film/LittleNicky'': Adrian, one of the good-natured titular character's wicked older brothers (alongside Cassius), who is cunning and manipulative, surprisingly speaks with a British accent (and the only one in his family to regularly have it). In fairness, though, his portrayer Creator/RhysIfans is Welsh.

* Tai Lung from ''WesternAnimation/KungFuPanda''. Being voiced by Creator/IanMcShane just makes him more badass. [[WesternAnimation/KungFuPanda2 The sequel]] does it again, with new villain Lord Shen being voiced by Creator/GaryOldman.

* ''WesternAnimation/TheLegendOfTarzan'': Clayton's death in the original movie has lead to its legacy episode "Tarzan and the Gaunlet of Vengeance", where his younger sister [[TragicVillain Lady Waltham]] commits a misguided vengeance against Tarzan, thinking that the latter was the one who killed her brother (even though that was completely an accident done by Clayton himself). Thankfully, by the end of that episode, [[FemalesAreMoreInnocent she changed]] [[HeelFaceTurn her ways]] once Tarzan saves her from the black panthers Nuru and Sheeta, feeling remorseful for her vengeance.

** ''WesternAnimation/{{Tarzan}}'' plays this straight with [[spoiler:Clayton and his henchmen, who originated from the United Kingdom and only used the trip to Africa as a means of poaching the gorillas inside the jungle that the titular charater is living in, simply out of greed]].

** ''WesternAnimation/{{Tarzan}}'' plays this straight with Clayton and his henchmen, who originated from the United Kingdom and only used the trip to Africa as a means of poaching the gorillas inside the jungle that the titular charater is living in, simply out of greed.

* ''Film/HotFuzz'': The entire Neighborhood Watch Alliiance, [[spoiler:which was lead by Frank Butterman, Danny's own father]], is full of Brits who have the main purpose of making their residence of Sanford win the "Village of the Year" award anually, which is implemented by trying to eliminate those who were deemed as being socially "[[{{Irony}} imperfect]]" for the town.

* ''Film/HotFuzz'': The entire Neighborhood Watch Alliiance, [[spoiler:which was lead by Frank Butterman, Danny's own father]], is full of Brits who have the main purpose of making their residence of Sanford win the "Village of the Year" award anually by trying to eliminate those who were deemed as being socially "[[{{Irony}} imperfect]]" for the town.

** The Lion King example is particularly notable in that Creator/JeremyIrons' Scar is [[EvilUncle directly related to]] the rest of the (American-voiced) cast.

** ZigZaggedTrope in ''WesternAnimation/RobinHood1973''. Prince John has a thick British accent and is the main antagonist of the movie. On the other hand, Robin, Maid Marian and several other sympathetic characters have British accents too, which isn't surprising considering that the movie is set in England.

* ''VideoGame/SkiesOfArcadia'': Valua is modelled on a mixture of Imperial Spain and Victorian Britain, and they are largely imperialist warmongers who want to TakeOverTheWorld and oppose the sky-pirate heroes (although [[AntiVillain individual character motivations are in some cases quite morally grey]]).

** ''WesternAnimation/{{Tarzan}}'' plays this straight with Clayton and his henchmen, who originated in the United Kingdom (much like Jane Porter and her father Prof. Archimedes Q. Porter) and only used the trip to Africa as a means of poaching the gorillas inside the jungle that Tarzan is living in, simply out of greed.

* ''Series/BladeTheSeries'' has the series BigBad, Marcus van Sciver being originally from London but having lived in Detroit for over a hundred years. Despite this, he still has a clear British accent. This could be deliberate on his part, as a number of much older vampires (e.g., Overlord Rusk) have adopted American accents.

* Lady Cassandra from ''Series/DoctorWho'' has many of these traits, complete with a xenophobic disdain for everyone and a Posh accent being played by Zoe Wanamaker no less. This is made even more explicit in her second appearance in "New Earth" in which she possesses Rose because she thinks she fits her eugenicist views as part of her revenge plot, being portrayed in a more straightforward fashion as a white supremacist. She does this to force Rose into becoming the thing she claimed to hate the most in Cassandra; an [[SocialDarwinist elitist supremacist villainess.]]

* ''Series/JessicaJones2015'': Creator/DavidTennant uses the Estuary English accent he used as the Tenth Doctor to portray Kilgrave.
* ''Series/TheDefenders2017'': Creator/ElodieYung puts on a posh British accent when playing Elektra, who turns evil after being revived by the Hand.
* ''Series/Daredevil2015'': In season 3, Wilson Fisk's replacement for James Wesley is Felix Manning (Joe Jones), a British fixer whom Fisk tasks with strongarming and threatening people, and also serves as Dex's handler.
%%* Lord Darken Rahl in ''Series/LegendOfTheSeeker'' has a British accent. Craig Parker is a Kiwi who lived in England for a while.
%%** This accent is not duplicated by other characters playing D'Harans, except for John Rhys-Davies (Welsh) playing his father Panis Rahl in disguise.

* ''Series/LegendOfTheSeeker'': The series seems to [[InvokedTrope invoke]] this with having Darken Rahl speak in a high-class English accent (while of course he's not actually British, nor is his actor, the New Zealander Craig Parker).
* ''Series/RavensHome'': Chelsea's ex-husband Garrett is a cheating GoldDigger from Britain.
* ''Series/SupermanAndLois'': Morgan Edge has a refined British accent (which Lois once offhandedly suggests is fake, possibly as a nod to the fact that the pre-Crisis Edge was American) and presents himself as a business tycoon trying to help a small town when in reality his plans are a lot more sinister. [[spoiler:It turns out that he's not British at all. Not even human. He's Superman's older half-brother Tal-Rho from their mother's first marriage. His accent comes from the fact that his pod landed in Britain, where he was captured and tortured for a few years, picking up the accent from them.]]
* ''Series/{{Charmed|1998}}'': Whenever Piper and Leo's baby son Wyatt is turned evil by something, his future adult self's accent [[UnexplainedAccent inexplicably]] changes from American to British.
* ''Series/{{Stargirl|2020}}'': Zigzagged with Richard Swift (AKA The Shade), who speaks with a refined British accent and is played by Creator/JonathanCake. He's initially assumed to be evil, only to turn out to be trying to stop someone [[EvenEvilHasStandards even worse]]. He even admits that he may be a bad guy, but he's a far cry from true evil. In fact, [[spoiler:while the pilot episode shows the Shade dragging off Dr. Mid-Nite, seeming to his death, in fact, the Shade was trying to protect him and accidentally ended up trapping him in the shadow world]].
* ''Series/WalkerTexasRanger'':
** The main villain of Season 6's "[[Recap/WalkerTexasRangerS6E17InGodsHands In God's Hands]]", Kroeger, appears to speak in a heavy British or Irish accent. While he and his gang were pursued by Walker and Trivette during an armed robbery, engaging the latter Ranger in a shootout, he was responsible for [[spoiler:firing the bullet that injured 6-year-old [=Danny McGee=], which Trivette [[TurnInYourBadge took the rap for, causing him to be placed on administrative leave,]] until Walker proved what really happened.]]
** Victor Drake in Season 9's "[[Recap/WalkerTexasRangerS9E21BloodDiamonds Blood Diamonds]]" was born in Liverpool in 1963, right at the same time Music/TheBeatles hit it big and speaks in a heavy British accent. Drake is an arms dealer whose background includes smuggling chemicals to Iraq to make nerve gas and now sitting on the Top 10 of the FBI's most wanted list. He was trying to sell weapons to a rebel group in Sierra Leone, and caught on to Walker and Trivette's cover when the latter Ranger assumed the identity of a deceased diamond smuggler (who was later revealed to be [[ContaminationSituation a carrier of]] [[PlagueEpisode a deadly Ebola virus]]) to trick him into a trap, leading up to [[spoiler:both Rangers being killed, but it was nothing more but a [[AllJustADream bad]] [[NightmareSequence dream]] Alex was having, until [[OrWasItADream Walker reveals he was about to undertake the investigation from that dream]].]]

** ''WesternAnimation/{{Tarzan}}'' plays this straight with Clayton and his henchmen, who originated in the United Kingdom, much like Jane Porter and her father Prof. Archimedes Q. Porter, and only used their trip to Africa as a means of poaching the gorillas inside the jungle that Tarzan is living in, simply out of greed.

* There are two candidates for BigBad in the movie ''Anime/ResidentEvilDegeneration''. Between the spineless, obnoxious asshole Senator Ron Davis and the polite, smooth-talking Brit Frederic Downing, which do ''you'' think ends up being the true villain responsible for the outbreak? The first guess doesn't count.

* In ''WesternAnimation/{{Cars 2}}'', the mastermind behind the lemons' plot is [[spoiler: Sir Miles Axlerod, who's voiced by Creator/EddieIzzard, no less.]]

* ''Film/{{Constantine}}'': [[spoiler:While the half-breed angel Gabriel technically doesn't have any specified nationality (especially in the theological perspective), he surprisingly speaks with a British accent, due to the fact that her portrayer Creator/TildaSwinton being British herself.]]

* Creator/JulianGlover has, in fact, played villains in ''Film/JamesBond, Film/HarryPotter, Franchise/StarWars, Franchise/IndianaJones, Series/DoctorWho'', and elsewhere, most of them with a Brit accent.

* ''Film/Bedazzled2000'': Liz Hurley as Satan. Given that the first movie was British, and [[ForeignFanservice it helps]] [[EverythingSoundsSexierInFrench the sexiness]], it's {{justified}}.

* ''Gone In 60 Seconds'': Creator/ChristopherEccleston. He shows he's evil [[CulturalPosturing because he doesn't like baseball.]]
%%* ''Film/HighSchoolMusical 3'': Tiara Gold.

* ''Film/JohnnyEnglishReborn'' (which is ironically part of a film series that primarily parodies the ''James Bond'' franchise) has Simon Ambrose, who, despite being a prolific agent of [=MI7=], also works for Vortex, an organization of suspicious assassins, to which he is one of their founding members.

** In one episode, Moriarty from the ''Franchise/SherlockHolmes'' stories comes back in holographic form to menace the crew. However, he was played by an American actor who miraculously affected a stunningly believable British accent (Creator/DanielDavis later used the same flawless British accent in ''Series/TheNanny''). {{Justified}} in this case by the fact that, well, it's Moriarty from the Sherlock Holmes stories -- what else would he be ''but'' British? {{Downplayed}} when it becomes apparent that this Moriarty is really [[spoiler:not all that evil or ruthless, with his main motivation being simply the right to exist.]]