History Main / EvilBrit

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*** In fact all major bad guys were played by Brits, The Emperor, Darth Vader (although not his voice actor, as the voice of David Prowse was too west-country, earning him the nickname Darth Farmer), Count Dooku, and even Darth Maul.

Doesn't really apply in British works, of course.

** Tony Jay's voice was ''[[EvilSoundsDeep made]]'' for this trope.

* In one episode of ''StarTrekTheNextGeneration'' Moriarity from the SherlockHolmes stories comes back in holographic form to menace the crew. However he was played an American actor who miraculously effected a stunningly believable British accent.

* Many DisneyAnimatedCanon villains have vaguely British accents; some manage to have them while being [[{{Disney/Aladdin}} Arabian]] or [[TheLionKing lions]]. [[TonyJay Or]] [[{{Disney/TheHunchbackOfNotreDame}} French]].

* Tavington from ''ThePatriot'', a travesty of the RealLife [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Banastre_Tarleton Banastre Tarleton]]. Sure, it's a movie about the American Revolution, but did they really have to make him so utterly cruel and despicable?
** The trope showed up in other MelGibson films: in 1981's ''Gallipoli'', the British soldiers are shown drinking tea on the beach while the Australians die in the battle, and ''{{Braveheart}} portrays the heroic struggle of the Scots against the evil English. All have been roundly criticised by historians for their wild inaccuracies, often involving playing up (or outright fabricating) British atrocities and general nastiness. In a particularly notorious example, ''ThePatriot'' shows British soldiers burning a group of townsfolk alive in a church, an act actually committed centuries later by the Waffen-SS in France.

** [[DieHard Definitely Evil Brit, not Evil German]].
*** If it was too late to be the TropeCodifier, AlanRickman's villain in ''DieHard'' certainly made the EvilBrit villain an almost obligatory character for a while.

* In ''IpMan 2'', the British are portrayed as opponents and racist to the Chinese, including a [[PoliceBrutality brutal policeman]] and a CompleteMonster boxer called Twister who takes an almost orgasmic joy in brutally beating sick and elderly Chinese Warriors to death.

* Basically, this is the driving force between AlanRickman and Jason Isaacs' career.

* BBCAmerica is running with this trope, September is [[http://www.bbcamerica.com/content/23/anglophenia.jsp?bc_id=1751 Accent Of Evil Month]], all month long they will be showing movies featuring an Evil Brit (Die Hard With a Vengeance, with Jeremy Irons, Robin Hood: Prince of Thieves with Alan Rickman Star Trek: Generations with Malcolm McDowell; and Superman II with Terence Stamp)

** MelGibson is clearly passionately in love with this trope: seemingly half his career has been spent making films that are little more than anti-English propaganda, beginning with 1981's ''Gallipoli''. All have been roundly criticised by historians for their wild inaccuracies, often involving playing up (or outright fabricating) British atrocities and general nastiness. In a particularly notorious example, ''ThePatriot'' shows British soldiers burning a group of townsfolk alive in a church, an act actually committed centuries later by the Waffen-SS in France.

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* In ''IpMan 2'', the British are portrayed as opponents and racist to the Chinese, including a [[PoliceBrutality brutal policeman]] and a {{Jerkass}}-to-CompleteMonster boxer.

* Many DisneyAnimatedCanon villains have vaguely British accents; some manage to have them while being [[{{Disney/Aladdin}} Arabian]] or [[TheLionKing lions]].

* How did ''{{Fallout}} 3'' clue those new to the series in that the Enclave was evil, hours before they show up? By having the [[PresidentEvil president]] be voiced by Malcolm [=McDowell=].
** I'm not sure if that makes them evil because he's British, or it it makes them evil..... because he's Malcolm [=McDowell=].

-->-- '''George [=MacDonald=] Fraser''', ''The Hollywood History of the World''

** In fact, every Megatron played by David Kaye (so Beast Wars, Beast Machines, Armada, Energon and Cybertron) all have an accent that oozes danger, brilliance and magnificent bastardy of an order barely concievable. Guess what nation of the planet Earth it is eerily familiar to...

* Vam Kleiss of GeneratorRex. Seriously, his voice creeps me out.

* Megabyte of ReBoot has a British accent, voiced by the late TonyJay.

** ''Monkey Dust'' did it again in their version of "The Crusades". A group of American Knights are shipped off to the holy land to rescue the Holy Grail from British-accented Saladin (or, as they call him: "Say-leddin! You English bastard!"). Along the way they use pretty much every trope from every Action film ever, and a great many humorous anachronisms. The film is dedicated to "all the Americans who died during the crusades". SoYeah...

*** The topic of British villains in movies and Rickman in particular was discussed on Stephen Fry's panel show ''{{QI}}'' [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NsFaxeWnSz4 here]]