History Main / EvilBrit

* ''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.

%%*** Wouldn't they be CanadaEh though?

** If it was too late to be the TropeCodifier, Creator/AlanRickman's villain in ''Film/DieHard'' certainly made the Evil Brit villain an almost obligatory character for a while.

** Averted for Rickman in ''Film/GalaxyQuest''.

Contrast BritishStuffiness, which may be applied to a [[StraightMan nominally heroic]] character who [[DeathOfTheHypotenuse must]] [[IJustWantMyBelovedToBeHappy nevertheless]] DieForOurShip.

* The magnificent Creator/TonyJay as the [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8U9T8Z_Ayhw Lieutenant]] in ''VideoGame/Fallout1''.

*** Actually Hans was German, but you certainly wouldn't guess that from their accents.

Any character with a UsefulNotes/{{British accent|s}}, particularly in [[AristocratsAreEvil upper class]] [[IAmVeryBritish Received Pronunciation]] (far and away [[SmallReferencePools the most common type you'll hear]] in American media) is likely to turn out to be a villain. The English tend to view this trope in one of three ways, depending on the particular depiction. Either: with a sense of pride (EvilIsSexy / EvilIsCool / [[WickedCultured Evil Is Posh]] after all!), mild eye-rolling amusement (tsk, ''Americans'') OR annoyance at the apparent [[NationalStereotypes national stereotyping]].

* The imperiously domineering Isabella "Ivy" Valentine from the ''VideoGame/SoulSeries'' and femme fatale for hire Christie from ''VideoGame/DeadOrAlive'' (both voiced with the applicable RP accent) are both great examples of the Evil Brit stereotype where it's used to enhance their EvilIsSexy personalities. Ivy does pull a HeelFaceTurn after her first appearance (and was ObliviouslyEvil even then) but retained the [[IceQueen frosty attitude]]. Averted with ''Franchise/StreetFighter.'''s Cammy White - she's one of the good guys.

* Liquid Snake from ''VideoGame/MetalGearSolid'' is an JustForFun/{{egregious}} example because his [[EvilTwin good twin]] - or at least, as close to one as one can get, if even that, if Psycho Mantis, Liquid Snake's, and Meryl Silverburgh's statements are to be believed) was raised as an American. According to canon ([[{{Retcon}} at that point]]) they were both half-British biologically.
*** Possibly {{justified|Trope}} as Liquid mentions having trained with the SAS. It's possible he picked up the accent during that time, along with his affinity for fox-hunting.
** ''VideoGame/MetalGearSolid4'' reveals that [[spoiler:the leader of the Patriots]] was [[spoiler:Major Zero, who started them, ironically, because of his admiration of an American patriot]]. Whether he starts out as a villain is ambiguous, but from the [[spoiler:'70s]] onward he fits.
** Naomi had an upper-class English accent in the original ''Metal Gear Solid'' (it was dropped for the remake and her appearance in ''[=MGS4=]''), [[spoiler:and while not really evil (just vengeful), she created Foxdie]].
*** Her accent comes from her being from Rhodesia, an ex-British colony. At least one parent of hers was probably British, or of British descent. Of course, she has very little memory of her parents and was raised by a globe-trotting German mercenary based in America.

** According to the Japanese MSX manual for ''VideoGame/MetalGear'', Machinegun Kid, one of the Outer Heaven mercenaries that fought Solid Snake, was formerly a member of the British SAS.

** [[FatBastard Krew]] also has a British accent, [[spoiler: as does his daughter]].

* You can give the VillainProtagonist of ''VideoGame/SaintsRow2'' a Cockney accent.

* The magnificent Creator/TonyJay as the [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8U9T8Z_Ayhw Lieutenant]] in ''VideoGame/{{Fallout 1}}.''
* ''VideoGame/{{Uncharted}}'' LOVES Evil Brits. In ''[[VideoGame/UnchartedDrakesFortune Drake's Fortune]]'', you have Gabriel Roman, [[spoiler: even if his Dragon, Atoq Navarro, ends up killing him so Navarro can take El Dorado for his own purposes]]. There's Harry Flynn in ''[[VideoGame/Uncharted2AmongThieves Among Thieves]]''. And in ''[[VideoGame/Uncharted3DrakesDeception Drake's Deception]]'', you have Marlowe and her Dragon, Talbot, with a bit of the game even taking place near and in their secret lair in England. Subverted with Charlie Cutter who is an ally of Drake and was only working for Marlowe as a mole.
%%* [[BigBad Sofia Lamb]] from ''VideoGame/{{Bioshock 2}}''.
* In ''VideoGame/RedFactionGuerrilla'', [[spoiler:Samanya]] has an apparently inexplicable British accent ([[FakeBrit well, I say 'British']]) on a planet populated mostly by Americans. That's your first clue as to the fact that she's [[spoiler:a Marauder and the leader's sister (the leader also speaks with a similar British accent), although the trope is eventually subverted as the Marauders are allies for the last few battles and the villains are all American]].
** Adam Hale of the sequel ''Red Faction: Armageddon'' is a more vanilla example.

* It's worth noting that [[Franchise/ResidentEvil Wesker's]] evilness increases in direct proportion to his Britishness as the series goes on. Very, ''very'' [[FakeBrit fake]], [[EvilIsHammy exaggeratedly]] [[Administrivia/TropesAreTools delicious]] Britishness.

* Inverted, then [[spoiler: played straight]] in ''VideoGame/Portal2''. Wheatley (voiced by British comedian Stephen Merchant) follows you around for the first portion of the game and guides you through the facility. While his advice [[IdiotBall isn't always helpful]], he's generally very nice towards Chell... [[spoiler: Up until his FaceHeelTurn at the end of Chapter 5, where he's hooked up to [=GLaDOS=]'s body and becomes DrunkWithPower, effectively corrupting him to the point of insanity. From that point onward, he takes [=GLaDOS=]'s place as the main antagonist of the game, and fills the role of FinalBoss.]]
* ''VideoGame/{{Titanfall}}'' Has a shade of this. The IMC speak mostly in British Accents and are the evil corporation oppressing the poor colonists... Gee, this sounds familiar.

* Nexus from ''VideoGame/{{Warzone 2100}}'' speaks with a British accent, despite the setting of the game and all of its other voice actors being American.

* Jin Kisaragi from ''VideoGame/{{Blazblue}}'' was born in England, though he was raised and lives in what resembles Japan, and his personality comes in two modes: "DeadpanSnarker StrawNihilist" [[FromBadToWorse and]] "[[NightmareFuel Creepy]] [[IncestSubtext Incestuous]] [[AxCrazy Katana Crazy Psychopath]]", though he does get better. Hades Izanami is an even more blatant example, being the BigBad of the series, and even having a British accent to boot.

* ''VideoGame/ResidentEvil'': Albert Wesker's accent is [[WhatTheHellIsThatAccent hard to pin down]] [[spoiler:which might make sense in hindsight, as it's unclear where he's originally from and he was raised as part of an Umbrella eugenics project, which could've involved a lot of moving around throughout his childhood]]. However, a general rule of thumb during the series is that the eviler he gets, the more British he sounds.

* The ''ComicBook/JudgeDredd'' miniseries ''Young Death'', which reveals the origin of Judge Death, strongly implies that he and the Dark Judges are British, or [[AlternateUniverse his world's equivalent of British]]. Although the comics are made in the United Kingdom, Judge Dredd himself is a post-Apocalyptic American. Retconned in the ''Fall of Deadworld'' storyline, which establishes that the Dark Judges are from an alternate America.

** Cutler Beckett is a very stereotypical [[AristocratsAreEvil evil British aristocrat]]. However, most of the other major characters are ''also'' Brits of various stripes, and some of them are aristocrats themselves! Beckett's {{Dragon}} Mercer is [[OopNorth Mancunian]].

* [[spoiler:Superintendent Pendrew]] in ''VideoGame/SleepingDogs''. Awareness of this trope as well as its prevalence in the aforementioned Hong Kong kung fu movies (which this game lovingly homages), has made many a player go "Evil!" immediately after the character's very first line.

** 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 a notorious arms dealer who 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 diamond smuggler 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]].]]

** Victor Drake in Season 9's "[[Recap/WalkerTexasRangerS9E21BloodDiamonds Blood Diamonds]]" was born in Liverpool in the early 1960s, right at the same time Music/TheBeatles hit it big and speaks in a heavy British accent. Drake is a notorious arms dealer who 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 diamond smuggler 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]].]]

** Victor Drake in Season 9's "[[Recap/WalkerTexasRangerS9E21BloodDiamonds Blood Diamonds]]" was born in Liverpool in the early 1960s, right at the same time Music/TheBeatles hit it big and speaks in a heavy British accent. Drake is a notorious arms dealer who 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 diamond smuggler 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]].

* Creator/VinnieJones: The "hooligan" sounding tough guy variety of Evil Brit is exemplified by this man in the American film ''Film/TheCondemned2007'', where he plays a war criminal. This is as opposed to his roles in ''Film/{{Snatch}}'' and ''Film/LockStockAndTwoSmokingBarrels'', where most of the cast have some form of UK accent.

* Creator/VinnieJones: The "hooligan" sounding tough guy variety of Evil Brit is exemplified by this man in the American film ''Film/TheCondemned'', where he plays a war criminal. This is as opposed to his roles in ''Film/{{Snatch}}'' and ''Film/LockStockAndTwoSmokingBarrels'', where most of the cast have some form of UK accent.

** This trend is continued in the sequel trilogy. General Hux (played by Irishman Domhnall Gleeson) has a British accent, while Resistance fighter Finn (played by Englishman John Boyega) has an American accent.

* ''Franchise/CodeGeass'' zigzags this slightly; though it's based out of the North American continent, the Holy Britannian Empire draws chiefly on the ThemeParkVersion of the British Empire, with [[CultureChopSuey a few aspects of Germanic, Celtic, and Arthurian mythologies]]. As a rule, most Britannians are at best apathetic to the plight of conquered people, and openly oppressive at worst. There are a couple[[TokenGoodTeammate Token Good Teammates]], but its actual culture and society beyond its imperialism is barely explored.

** With ''VideoGame/AssassinsCreedIII'' taking place during UsefulNotes/TheAmericanRevolution, Evil Brits will be in abundance; however, Templars and allies to Connor have been stated to be on both sides of the conflict, to avoid comparisons to a certain other [[Film/ThePatriot one-sided depiction]] of the Revolution. Worryingly, not one piece of media shown so far has actually shown Connor attacking anything other than the Redcoats.

** ''Film/ThePatriot2000'': The main villain is Colonel Tavington (Creator/JasonIsaacs), based on the RealLife [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Banastre_Tarleton Banastre Tarleton]]. While Tarleton himself did not perform some of the deeds attributed to him in the film, the Revolutionary War in South Carolina was especially violent nonetheless. In a particularly notorious example, British soldiers burn a group of townsfolk alive in a church, an act actually committed centuries later by the Waffen-SS in France but one century earlier by English Parliamentarians against Irish townsfolk and the English refugees they were sheltering during the Confederate War. This is downplayed by Tavington's superiors, who universally despise him for his tactics, but are willing to look the other way to win the war.

* ''Film/ThePatriot2000'':
** Tavington (Creator/JasonIsaacs), based on the RealLife [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Banastre_Tarleton Banastre Tarleton]]. While Tarleton himself did not perform some of the deeds attributed to him in the film, the Revolutionary War in South Carolina was especially violent.
** The trope showed up in other Creator/MelGibson films: in 1981's ''Film/{{Gallipoli}}'', the British soldiers are shown drinking tea on the beach while the Australians die in the battle, and ''Film/{{Braveheart}}'' portrays the heroic struggle of the Scots against the evil English. All have been roundly criticized by historians for their wild inaccuracies, often involving playing up (or outright fabricating) British atrocities and general nastiness. In a particularly notorious example, ''The Patriot'' shows British soldiers burning a group of townsfolk alive in a church, an act actually committed centuries later by the Waffen-SS in France but one century earlier by English Parliamentarians against Irish townsfolk and the English refugees they were sheltering during the Confederate War.
*** The Royal British Legion were extremely miffed by the portrayal of the British in ''Gallipoli'', noting that more than twice as many British soldiers as Australians died, that the Australian landing at the Nek was actually a diversion for a New Zealand landing at Sair Bair, not the British landing at Suvla Bay (which, incidentally, was a brutal and bloody action, not a ''tea picnic'' as it is portrayed in the movie). Finally, it was Australian commanders' idiocy, not British, that was behind the failure at the Nek. Creator/ChristopherHitchens has noted that the British people are so often portrayed as incompetent in Gibson's films that he suspects it is a deliberate prejudice:
-->'''Hitchens''': [[StiffUpperLip Englishmen don't form picket lines outside movie theaters when "stereotyped," but still.]]

*** Mel Gibson must be really fond of this trope.

* ''Film/ThePatriot'':

** The trope showed up in other Creator/MelGibson films: in 1981's ''Film/{{Gallipoli}}'', the British soldiers are shown drinking tea on the beach while the Australians die in the battle, and ''Film/{{Braveheart}}'' portrays the heroic struggle of the Scots against the evil English. All have been roundly criticized by historians for their wild inaccuracies, often involving playing up (or outright fabricating) British atrocities and general nastiness. In a particularly notorious example, ''Film/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 but one century earlier by English Parliamentarians against Irish townsfolk and the English refugees they were sheltering during the Confederate War.

** 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, 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.]]

** The main villain of Season 6's "[[Recap/WalkerTexasRangerS6E17InGodsHands In God's Hands]]", Kroeger, [[spoiler:who was responsible for firing the bullet that injured 6-year-old [=Danny McGee=] during a shootout with Trivette while being pursued by him and Walker, which Trivette [[TurnInYourBadge took the rap for]] until Walker proved what really happened,]] appears to speak in a heavy British or Irish accent.