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9* ''{{WebVideo/AFK}}'': Serena is a healer and overall nice person, though when Clint pushes her too far, she nearly kills him with a sudden spell which causes an airless void to form around his head.
10* While nice characters are few and far between in ''Roleplay/{{AJCO}}'', the ones that ''are'' there should almost certainly be feared. Possibly ''because'' they're such a rare breed.
11** Kaja is motherly and forgiving, taking good care of her cheerful cherry-blossom town on the water with all the love one would expect. She's ''also'' a centuries-old former KnightTemplar angel sworn to protect whoever asks for her help, and reveals her true form to A_J in a fit of anger when [[spoiler: Egg is sentenced to death]].
12** Blue is normally sweet, fluffy and utterly docile - so nice, in fact, that even ''[[TokenEvilTeammate Krauzer]]'' has a soft spot for her. [[HulkingOut When a Blood Moon rises, however...]]
13** Mei is clumsy, friendly and permanently well-meaning, though as a zombie she can and possibly will tear her enemies limb from limb should they push her that far. She's practically indestrucible.
14* ''WebVideo/TheAnnoyingOrange'': It pays not to anger Marshmallow, even the title character warns about this, through Grapefruit found this [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=56SA_C9o9VU out the hard way]].
15* In the web serial ''Literature/AshAndCinders'', Cinder first stands up for herself when she [[TakingYouwithMe threatens to kill the Forest Queen and the rest of her kingdom]] if they refuse to give her her brother back.
16* In ''Blog/AskKingSombra'': Caribbean Splash is probably one of the cheeriest ponies you could meet. [[spoiler:Then [[http://ask-king-sombra.tumblr.com/post/51259196758/their-song-is-whistle-a-happy-tune-from-the-king his best friend was killed during the attempt to escape from the Crystal Wolves.]] Sombra [[KickTheDog says he and the other deaths of the battle don't matter]] due to being, to put it nicely, [[ItsAllAboutMe a self-centered D-bag]].]] Splash overhears this and [[spoiler:[[http://ask-king-sombra.tumblr.com/post/51840622066/caribbean-puuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuunch decks Sombra right in the face]], hard enough to draw blood, [[http://ask-king-sombra.tumblr.com/post/52099130841/splash-sombra-wat-r-u-doin-splash-sombra followed by giving him]] a WhatTheHellHero in a complete rage and trying to beat the hell out of him.]]
17* ''Roleplay/AsukaQuest'': SB!Asuka is ''far'' nicer than her canon counterpart. She's also a ''far'' scarier fighter in her Evangelion due to her creativity and knowledge of physics, to the point where the Angels had to massively buff themselves just to stand a chance against her. Among her tricks include one capable of destroying planets and one theorized to be a RealityBreakingParadox (currently only tried in simulators).
18* ''WebVideo/TheAwkwardCompilation'' gives us Lester, a wonderfully amiable and somewhat put-upon hero who will put up with quite a lot -- until he actually seems to be making progress with Steph, and his live-in StalkerWithACrush Alex interferes and refuses to be ignored.
19* ''WebVideo/{{Carmilla}}'': Laura Hollis, AllLovingHero, truly wants to save everyone possible at her CrapsackWorld AcademyOfAdventure. She's an upbeat, eager [[TheDeterminator Determinator]], who will withstand utter hell if it will keep people safe. But if you [[BreakTheCutie push her too far]], she ''will'' break... and chances are ''very good'' that you will not survive. When she crosses her DespairEventHorizon in season two she [[spoiler: flat out kills Vordenberg]], and then there's her actually ''ordering'' [[LesbianVampire Carmilla]] to kill the cannibal baker in the Christmas Special...
20--> '''Laura:''' [[ItMakesSenseInContext Murder her for Christmas!]] '''''[[BewareTheNiceOnes Murder her for Christmas!]]'''''
21* Chakats from ''Literature/ChakonaSpace'' are usually nice to a fault -- empathic, social, family-oriented, and almost too good to be true except that they normally actually are; their designers did a good job. ''Don't'', however, threaten one's cubs or even hir best friends and family will have trouble keeping hir from shredding you on the spot...
22%% * Beware [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A8Z-JCP4Q6A Chester Cheetah]].
23* ''WebVideo/CriticalRole'': Caduceus Clay is easily the kindest member of the Mighty Nein, and most often the one the rest of them turn to for comfort and guidance. He also rarely deals any actual hits when the Nein get into fights, instead focusing more on [[CombatMedic buffing and healing his teammates]], and prefers to try and talk things out before resorting to violence. That is, unless you hurt his friends or his home. When [[spoiler:Fjord is killed by an agent of Uk'otoa]], Caduceus flies off the handle and starts unleashing [[MakeThemRot the vilest of necrotic spells]], and when the Nein encounter Caleb's abuser, Caduceus is one of the first to suggest they kill him then and there. He's also far from harmless even when he ''isn't'' angry, as his primary method of protecting himself is to summon a swarm of flesh-eating insects that start devouring anyone who gets close.
24* ''WebVideo/DaisyBrown'' is generally a sweet and innocent girl, but a few times, she snaps and gets angry with Alan. In [[https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=4vOe4_W0UI8 Artistic video]], it's implied she hits him just offscreen. In [[https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=G2Ww9toFrz8 "the basement"]] she actually stands up to him and even dares him to kill her before [[DidYouJustFlipOffCthulhu mocking him when he doesn't]].
25* Alfred, the [[TheBigGuy massive]] construction worker from ''Roleplay/DarwinsSoldiers'', is explicitly described as not "the kind of person to pick fights". And it takes a lot to provoke him into physical action. But anger him enough and you'll see why angering someone with SuperStrength is ''[[TemptingFate extremely]]'' [[TooDumbToLive stupid]]. His most extreme case was when he got so angry that he threatened ''to dismember someone and beat them to death [[GrievousHarmWithABody with their own limbs]]''. And if [[TheHero Dr. Zanasiu]] hadn't calmed him down, there was no doubt he would have done so.
26* Mirielle from ''Roleplay/DawnOfANewAgeOldportBlues'' is a sweet girl who's been raised by SickeninglySweethearts to be as kind and generous to others as possible. However, she's also shown to have a sharp-tongued, vindictive side that comes out against people she doesn't like. Barbra mentions in passing that she doesn't think ''anyone'' would want to cross Mirielle.
27* In ''Literature/DeadWest'', Gervas, the narrator is a KindHeartedCatLover, and a perfect gentleman. Cross him, and expect to be pulverized. The Porcelain Doctor is this combined with BewareTheQuietOnes; he is the sweetest, most polite, meek Bishounen in dainty glasses and always dressed sharply. But if you make him angry, prepare to die. The effect is more shocking since his aura will make you look at him like the most fragile and precious little thing in the world.
28* Donnie [=DuPre=] from ''WebVideo/DemoReel'' is adorably useless, cuddly and a total {{moe}}blob, but he's steely and vicious when it comes to Hollywood. For a [[HorribleHollywood damn]] [[MissingMom good]] [[DrivenToSuicide reason]] too.
29* Usually, Doki is the nicest person in the world but you better not [[http://akaichounokoe.deviantart.com/gallery/?q=crippled+girl#/d59elny insult her fighting skills]] or you'll look like [[http://akaichounokoe.deviantart.com/gallery/?q=crippled+girl#/d4qzfti this]].
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32* The Thistlesprings are arguably the kindest, least cynical family among the Bad Kids, but the parents put up arguably one of the better fights against the big bad’s assassination attempt with an automated army and a tank. And that’s not getting in to their son, who is a sweet, sensitive, and considerate…path of the berserker barbarian.
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34* The eponymous doctor in ''WebVideo/DrHorriblesSingAlongBlog''. Despite being a supervillain, he wouldn't dare think about murder or fight in a park with kids. Then Captain Hammer talked about doing Penny...
35* ''WebVideo/DragonBallZAbridged'':
36** Gohan's adherence to this trope is parodied. When he is a shy, meek, nerdy kid with good manners, a lot of the characters in the series abuse him in hilarious manners. When he loses it ([[PrecisionFStrike And you'll know it when he does]]), it's a sign that someone is going to get hurt.
37--->''[After Dende's Father and Brother are killed.]''\
38'''Krillin:''' Breathe Gohan! You're a leaf. A leaf in a calm stream!\
39'''Gohan:''' '''[[PrecisionFStrike FUCK THE STREAM!]]'''\
40''[Kicks Dodoria into a house.]''
41** After numerous battles and watching his [[ParentalNeglect idiot father]] get himself in and out of world-shattering duels, Gohan matures and solidifies his pacifist nature... until he encounters Cell, who cannot be reasoned with or defeated by his father. After numerous threats, taunts, and a good TheReasonYouSuckSpeech by Android 16, Gohan's psyche breaks and goes into [[SuperMode Super Saiyan 2]], with no threats or snarks, just TranquilFury.
42* In ''WebVideo/EndlessSaturdays'', Kara, while perhaps the most quiet and normal of the three, gets annoyed enough by her siblings to try and ensure that they get permanently lost in the wilderness.
43* Greg, the titular ''WebVideo/EpicNPCMan'', is a nice garlic farmer, who greets adventurers and gives quests. In one episode an adventurer keeps skipping Greg's dialog and Greg snaps, pulls a knife and threatens him with death unless he listens to all of it.
44* ''WebVideo/TheGuild'':
45** Codex is shy and accommodating to the point of being an ExtremeDoormat, but when she found out her boyfriend had dumped her for another man she set fire to his cello. Lampshaded in Season 3 by Vork: "Codex, you of all people turning on me as well? Do I truly have the power to snap your gentle spirit?"
46** Zaboo is [[StalkerWithaCrush very creepy]], but always sweet and giving, to the point of people [[MisaimedFandom wondering why Codex doesn't want to date him.]] And then he goes crazy on Valkyrie. Codex, whose plan it was to go after Valkyrie in the first place, says, "Ok, he's basically freaking both of us out now."
47** Clara was the other nice one of the guild. She was a sweet, [[CloudCuckooLander if slightly out there]], overgrown teenager who...tried to be a good mother. Probably. Then Vork didn't give her the orb, so she spent the next few days killing him nonstop.
48* ''Roleplay/TheGunganCouncil''. Io Akima seems to be one of the most lovable, playful persons around. That is, until Adira smashed her datapad, which was a gift from a friend that had died. Cue Io going from wanting to tease Adira to outright attempting to murder her.
49* ''WebVideo/HeroHouse'' has Nightwing. He may be friendly and slightly pathetic, but when push comes to shove, he can stand toe-to-toe with Predators twice his size.
50* Jay from ''WebVideo/MarbleHornets''. He is a normal, nice guy who tries to find out what goes on around him and his friends, but if, say, [[Franchise/TheSlenderManMythos The Operator]] does stuff like threaten Jessica, he will [[DidYouJustPunchOutCthulhu tackle and wrestle him]], even if it gives him 7 months of LaserGuidedAmnesia.
51* Any ''WebOriginal/ProtectorsOfThePlotContinuum'' agent who has a sweet and friendly demeanor will inevitably become a terror to Suvian entities, as agents' jobs include assassinating Mary Sues, performing exorcisms (which involve bashing the possessed character over the head) or similar violent or semi-violent duties.
52* Mr. X in ''[[WebVideo/ResidentEvilAbridged Resident Evil 2 Abridged]]'' is given a heaping helping of AdaptationalHeroism, wanting nothing more than to befriend Leon as soon as he sees him. Unfortunately, Mr. X's monstrous appearance scares Leon so badly that he shoots him on sight, which Mr. X [[MegatonPunch repays accordingly]], but he doesn't become ''truly'' pissed until after being dunked in liquid metal.
53* ''Literature/TheSagaOfTuck'' has several perfectly nice, ordinary characters who are all but trained covert operatives in intelligence, counterintelligence, black propaganda and sabotage.
54* ''Website/SCPFoundation'': Even the sweetest, most adorable [=SCPs=] can display this.
55** One of them is [[http://www.scp-wiki.net/scp-1522 a pair of sentient fishing trawlers]] that act like SickeninglySweethearts. What happens when another ship attacked one of them? The other ''rammed it at Mach 4''. Not even the lifeboats made it.
56** Another is a [[http://www.scp-wiki.net/scp-516 sentient tank]] that [[IAmNotAGun turned to pacifism]]. It will still open fire on traitors to its homeland, and on anyone who harms a civilian within its vicinity.
57** Do not attempt to decommission a [[BewareOfHitchhikingGhosts harmless hitchhiking ghost]]. It will... [[http://scp-wiki.wikidot.com/scp-1337 come back to haunt you]].
58** Another is a [[http://scp-wiki.wikidot.com/scp-054 sentient mass of water that takes the form of a woman]]. She was nice and friendly to male staff, but the experiments performed on her by them traumatized her so much, she finally had enough and lashed out at them which temporarily changed her object class to Euclid.
59** [[http://www.scp-wiki.net/scp-1609 SCP-1609]] used to be a perfectly harmless chair that would teleport behind you if you needed a seat. One botched decommission by woodchipper (performed by the Global Occult Coalition) later, it's taken to teleporting its remaining splinters into people's lungs if it feels threatened.
60** The [[WellIntentionedExtremist notoriously amoral]] SCP Foundation has an Ethics Committee. In-Universe, it's mostly seen as nonexistent or a joke. ''It's not''. The Ethics Committee are responsible for making damn sure that even with all the horrors they work with, the Foundation ''never'' crosses the line. To that end, they have the highest security clearance and can (and in some cases, ''have'') order the O5 council killed if they go too far. All the horrific things the Foundation does to keep containment? That's not stuff the Ethics Committee couldn't stop, that's stuff the Ethics Committee ''explicitly signed off on'' because they determined that the consequences of the [=SCPs=] being uncontained were ''even worse'' than [[GodzillaThreshold whatever the Foundation does to contain them]]. Yes, even [[NothingIsScarier Procedure 110-Montauk]].
61--->''To balance the costs, we must'' know ''the costs.''
62** The Three Moons Initiative is generally benevolent and its interventions on Earth are mostly for humanitarian purposes... but they have multiversal influence, advanced technology, and zero hesitation of using brutal force against people who abuse their authority against their fellow humans.
63--->'''SCP-2578-D''' (e-mail sent to targets): [[BadassBoast I never miss my mark]]. Abdicate and you will live.
64* ''WebVideo/SortedFood'': James is a kind, gentle and shy-seeming individual, who carries himself with an almost childlike innocence. He also holds black belts in multiple martial arts, and at one point effortlessly disarmed a knife-wielding Barry while complaining about how he was making a fuss in the kitchen.
65* In ''Literature/SuperPowereds'', hurting people Vince cares about is a ''very'' bad idea. Best exemplified at the end of Year 2, when [[spoiler: he has a vision of a girl from his past dying and goes on a rampage]], and near the end of Year 3 when [[spoiler: Sasha dies and he [[TranquilFury goes to kill]] the man who did it.]]
66* ''Roleplay/SurvivalOfTheFittest'' is perhaps one of the most perfect environments for turning nice guys/girls into murderous psychopaths.
67** One of the most jarring examples is Liam Brooks in v4, originally a rather quiet character with a love for gardening and a phobia of blood, but after the death of his girlfriend he dove headfirst onto the crazy train, putting together a makeshift garden with said girlfriend at the center while he proceeded to brutally kill three people and injure a third trying to add more bodies to it.
68** A lesser example in v4 would be [[GenkiGirl Maria Graham]], a happy-go-lucky CloudCuckoolander who [[HeroicBSOD was rendered almost catatonic for days]] after being beaten half to death and accidentally setting someone on fire trying to escape. However, after watching [[EvilBrit Maxwell Lombardi]] kill the boy she was in love with and her best friend, one after the other, and then try to kill her while mocking the former, she finally snapped hard and the two ended up viciously beating on each other in a burning building.
69* Among many in the FFRP forum ''The Town/Acronymia'', Pesty. A cute combination of Genki and Cloud Cuckoolander catgirl. She adores her boyfriend Grant, their adopted daughter Pixie, and lots of other people. When Grant's crazy and evil side tries to take him over, she snaps him out of it by bitch-slapping him and shouting in his face. In a future-possibility-what-if plot thread, the kidnapper of Pesty's grandson earns him an utterly nightmarish end.
70* Matt of ''WebVideo/TwoBestFriendsPlay'' is usually the calmer of the two friends, preferring LighterAndSofter games. But when he plays ''VideoGame/DeusExHumanRevolution'', after some initial reluctance, Matt goes nuts with the VideogameCrueltyPotential, stabbing and punching all the [=NPCs=] he can find.
71* When Dio kicks Danny in the ''WebVideo/VaguelyRecallingJoJo'' series, Jonathan mercilessly pummels Dio. Dio receives the same fate when he accidentally kicks Danny into the incinerator.
72* ''Literature/WhateleyUniverse'':
73** Jade Sinclair (Generator) qualifies. Normally the cute, shy, wacky 'little sister' figure, when she's [[BreakTheCutie pushed too hard]] one day, and then attacked by Bloodwolf (an avatar of the werewolf spirit) and two fellow Ultraviolents, she snaps. Bloodwolf ends up nailed to a tree. ''With railroad spikes.'' Lately she seems to be actively considering a potential career as the Psycho Babysitter From Hell -- perfectly harmless to her future charges, but woe to whoever thinks to threaten them. Of those among her circle of friends who have killed other people (which include a terrifyingly powerful mage, a girl who wields a sword that can cut through anything, a soul-eating demon and ''[[PersonOfMassDestruction Tennyo The Motherfucking Destroyer]]''), Jade's kill count exceeds the rest ''combined'' by a factor of four. At the very least.
74** Speaking of which, Tennyo herself is a very kind, if somewhat somber, person who spends a lot of time [[AfraidOfTheirOwnStrength worrying about accidentally hurting others]] with her powers. Considering how powerful she is, she has good reason to worry, so it is generally considered a ''very'' bad idea to give her a reason not to care about this.
75** In fact, let's put the entirety of Team Kimba, plus Carmilla, on the list. Hell, throw in Aquerna and Dragonrider while you're at it, as they've both been shown to bring the whoopass when needed.
76** [[ActualPacifist Folder]] once seriously hurt a close friend with his powers, and he [[TheFettered swore to never use violence for anything again, ever]]. Fortunately for the bullies, he stuck to this. ''Un''fortunately, they didn't see the intense ''rage'' he was keeping buried. [[ForcedTransformation The result]] when [[GenderBender she]] was finally pushed to far was [[BodyHorror purest]] NightmareFuel.
77** The Whateley student classification system has a few variants on the 'Ultraviolent Armband', ColorCodedForYourConvenience of course, and they run the gamut: on the one hand, you have the students who are actively violent and only kept at Whateley because A. the more people ''know'' about them, the easier they'll be able to take down, and B. better there than on the streets. You get the Pacifists, like Folder. And then you have the unwilling ragers, who are saddled with a "Thou Shalt Not Provoke" edict. A lot of them, like Razorback, are perfectly nice, if a little on edge or a bit depressed now and then. If, however, you ''ignore'' that ruling, you may wind up with a feral dinosaur able to casually dismember you and everyone in a 100-foot radius.
78* Skitter from ''Literature/{{Worm}}'' is in many ways the nicest of the Undersiders, a group of villains [[spoiler: trying to take over Brockton Bay]] and will go to any lengths for those she takes under her protection, even for complete strangers. She's also the most powerful, dangerous and terrifying of the group, despite it containing darkness manipulators and a girl with an army of monster dogs. This is because she wants to use her power for good and has resolved to make full use of intimidation to scare people into submission rather than harming them and, failing that, is prepared to use brutal combat pragmatism to take down stronger threats that herself as quickly as possible.
79* In ''WebVideo/WrestleWrestle'' April admits she has a timid voice, but Spoony points out that when she's pissed, her voice is booming, such as a BigWhat she did watching a show.
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