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16-> ''"Look like the innocent flower, but be the serpent under it."''
17-->-- '''Lady Macbeth''', ''Theatre/{{Macbeth}} Act 1 Scene 5''.
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19You meet someone you think is a really NiceGuy/Gal, or perhaps you meet a favorite celebrity for the first time, thinking that they'll be just as [[NiceCharacterMeanActor warm-hearted and cool as they are on camera]]. However, something happens to show their [[BeneathTheMask true colors]], revealing an immature brat, [[NoHeroToHisValet total]] {{Jerkass}}, or even outright {{villain|s}}.
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21Congratulations. You've just met the Bitch in Sheep's Clothing -- the polar opposite of HiddenHeartOfGold.
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23The WoundedGazelleGambit is a favorite tactic of this sort of antagonist, and if they are genuinely evil, expect them to be a VillainWithGoodPublicity. Can also possibly overlap with AlphaBitch, or more especially RichBitch.
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25It's also worth mentioning that this trope isn't exclusive to female characters. The title is a play on "AWolfInSheepsClothing," and can apply to any gender. All it requires is a person appears to be nice but is actually cruel and/or manipulative.
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27In romance plots, the Bitch in Sheep's Clothing is usually the RomanticFalseLead, being set up by the plot as appropriate boyfriend/girlfriend or spouse material for a character we ''know'' is destined to end up with one of the protagonists. Occasionally, this character ''was'' a nice person until they suffered sudden CharacterDerailment in order to [[DerailingLoveInterests remove them from the equation]]. In any case, expect them to make an EngineeredPublicConfession in one form or another.
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29In some cases, however, a Bitch in Sheep's Clothing can be sympathetic. Many lighter cases involve a scenario in which a fairly flawed yet well-intentioned character makes themselves out to be more benevolent than they really are ([[SmallNameBigEgo especially if they have a high opinion of themselves]]). More often than not, this charade falls apart and their true persona blasts out, usually in an extreme manner that makes them look even worse than they usually are. In some cases, a Bitch in Sheep's Clothing can lean more towards JerkWithAHeartOfGold if they aren't too busy hiding their unpleasant qualities with an over-enacted facade, instead of showing their genuine (and usually resented) redeeming aspects. Maybe someone will seem like this, then you realize they are just a LovableAlphaBitch or a type B {{Tsundere}}.
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31See also: DevilInPlainSight, FairWeatherEx, FairWeatherFoe, 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.
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33Not to be confused either with AffablyEvil or BewareTheNiceOnes, where the person is genuinely nice rather than just putting up a facade. Most especially, '''do not''' confuse this with FauxAffablyEvil. Such a character does not attempt to ''hide'' their evil nature, they simply engage in ''faux pleasantries'' while committing evil acts in a deliberately cruel or mocking manner. It could only overlap if the villain initially attempts to disguise their true nature, but then kept up the act ''after'' the reveal when they have no reason to do so beyond being a creep.
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35Contrast With TookALevelInJerkass, where the character was genuinely nice and became... well a {{Jerkass}}. Also compare and contrast JerkWithAHeartOfJerk. Compare JerkassToOne if they are nice to everyone but horrible to one particular person.
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37Contrast BitchAlert for a bitch who lets everyone knows that she's one, SheepInSheepsClothing for a character ''believed'' to be a Bitch in Sheep's Clothing but turns out not to be, and JerkWithAHeartOfGold, for someone who comes across as a jerk but turns out to be a good person deep down. A subtrope of AWolfInSheepsClothing and a supertrope to JerkassAtYourDiscretion.
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43!!Example Subpages:
44[[index]]
45* BitchInSheepsClothing/AnimeAndManga
46* BitchInSheepsClothing/ComicBooks
47* BitchInSheepsClothing/FanWorks
48* [[BitchInSheepsClothing/LiveActionFilms Films — Live-Action]]
49* BitchInSheepsClothing/{{Literature}}
50* BitchInSheepsClothing/LiveActionTV
51* BitchInSheepsClothing/VideoGames
52* BitchInSheepsClothing/VisualNovels
53* BitchInSheepsClothing/WesternAnimation
54[[/index]]
55
56!!Works with their own subpages:
57[[index]]
58* ''BitchInSheepsClothing/MangaWaido''
59* ''BitchInSheepsClothing/MoniRobo''
60* ''BitchInSheepsClothing/RevengeFilms''
61[[/index]]
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63!!Other examples:
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66[[folder:Asian Animation]]
67* ''Animation/{{Mechamato}}'': Payapi appears as a kindly firefighter robot, but he causes fires to extinguish them for good publicity. At first, he congratulates Amato and his friends for putting out a fire, but later he tries to set Amato's house alight.
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70[[folder:Comic Strips]]
71* In ''ComicStrip/ForBetterOrForWorse'', when Elly is interviewing a replacement for Kourtney, she thinks the candidate seems like a nice person from her application, and wonders why she was let go. She calls up, and the woman on the other end seems polite up until she screams at her child for acting out. Elly politely removes her from consideration, having heard all she needs to.
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74[[folder:Films -- Animation]]
75* ''WesternAnimation/BarbieMariposa'' has Henna, who is Mariposa's friend at first until she poisons the Queen and nearly kills all of the fairies in Flutterfield so she can take the throne.
76* Darla Dimple in ''WesternAnimation/CatsDontDance'' has a reputation as "America's sweetheart lover of children and animals," but in reality, she's a SpoiledBrat who hates animals and absolutely cannot ''tolerate'' the thought of them stealing any limelight from her.
77* ''WesternAnimation/{{Coco}}'' gives us [[spoiler:[[FakeUltimateHero Ernesto de la Cruz]]. At first, he looks very friendly and charming, as not only was he loved by all of Mexico before his untimely death, but he even offers to help Miguel go home before the latter is stuck in the Land of the Dead forever. Then we learn that he not only poisoned his best friend Hector to death when the latter wanted to go home, but he also stole his songs to become the famous singer that he is. His true colors are later exposed to the entire Land of the Dead, and he ends up stuck in a FateWorseThanDeath]].
78* ''WesternAnimation/Incredibles2'' gives us [[spoiler:Evelyn Deavor]]. At first, she seems kind and supportive of her brother wanting to bring superheroes back and strikes up a friendship with Helen, but is later revealed to be the true mastermind behind the Screenslaver and [[FantasticRacism prejudiced towards supers]].
79* ''WesternAnimation/{{Megamind}}'': Hal Stewart acts like a decent guy to Roxanne, but in truth, he's rather possessive of her, as shown by 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.
80* ''WesternAnimation/TheNutJob2NuttyByNature'': Gunther, the head exterminator, is introduced assuring Muldoon that he can humanely capture and transport the animals somewhere else. When he finds out that Muldoon wants to kill the animals rather than humanely trap them, he looks shocked for a second, then lets out an EvilLaugh and takes to the task with AxCrazy enthusiasm.
81* ''WesternAnimation/PhineasAndFerbTheMovieCandaceAgainstTheUniverse'': [[spoiler: Super Super Big Doctor comes off as someone who relates to what Candace is going through with her brothers, stating that she used to be the same way. However, it is revealed that she is a [[EvilIsPetty petty]], [[PsychopathicManchild childish]] overlord who enslaved the planet and only wanted Candace so she could restore her brainwashing plant to life]].
82* Lola the GoldDigger lionfish from ''WesternAnimation/SharkTale''. She dismisses Oscar calling him "cute but a nobody." When Oscar becomes famous, Lola starts dating him much to Angie's jealousy and dismay. After Oscar finishes a shark slayer stunt, Lola swims up to the cameras and [[ForcefulKiss forcefully kisses]] him, causing Angie to leave in jealousy, anger, and sadness. Once Angie confesses to Oscar her feelings for him, Oscar rethinks his feelings and dumps Lola -- which, unfortunately, [[spoiler: leads to her great anger as she mercilessly slams him against the windows. Lola then crosses the MoralEventHorizon by arranging for Don Lino to kidnap Angie in demand for Oscar's obedience even gleefully threatening Angie's life to do so]].
83-->'''Lola:''' You know, Sharkslayer, there's only one thing I like better than money: ''Revenge!''
84* 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 killing Shrek and Fiona.]]
85-->'''Fairy Godmother:''' I told you, '''''OGRES DON'T LIVE HAPPILY EVER AFTER!'''''
86* Mother Gothel in ''WesternAnimation/{{Tangled}}'' pretends to be Rapunzel's loving mother, but in actuality, she was the woman who kidnapped Rapunzel as a baby because her hair was full of magic from the flower used to de-age Gothel that got crushed into medicine for Rapunzel's real mother, the queen.
87* [[spoiler:Lotso]] in ''WesternAnimation/ToyStory3''. In the ''Art of Toy Story 3'' book, the revelation of his [[AxCrazy true nature]] was said to be like "finding out Series/{{Mister Rogers|Neighborhood}} was a mafia don".
88* ''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 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.]]
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92* Xiaxi, the protagonist of ''Manhua/GoddessCreationSystem'', acts sweet, cultured, and demure around the Wang Pu brothers in order to make them fall in love with her. She actually thinks they're a bunch of total assholes so she doesn't mind how her influence destabilizes the family or how hurt the brothers are by her seemingly sweet and benevolent actions. She has her reasons, but even she worries that it's starting to come too naturally to her.
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96* Doe-Doe Eun of ''Manhwa/PigBride'' is publicly a sweet YamatoNadeshiko maiden who enjoys being demure and needlework. But it's almost entirely an act to snare the main lead, who has made no secret that that's the kind of girl he likes. When there are no boys around, Doe-Doe is a ruthless gangster-type who bullies the other girls so they won't move in on her territory. What makes her a touch more sympathetic is that she is stuck in a YouCantFightFate competition with the title character, rendering all her efforts fruitless from the start.
97* Shinghi from ''Manhwa/ZippyZiggy'', especially at first. It's pretty much the entire point of his character. The same with his father.
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101* In ''[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yj_tReFezkw Flower of the Plateau]]'', [[Music/{{vocaloid}} Mikulia]] is a florist [[spoiler: but she actually was an ex-prostitute who even ''kills'' two people, an ex-suitor/client and ''[[OffingTheOffspring her own son]]'' because they're the only ones who know that]].
102* Music/{{Macabre}} has many of the {{Serial Killer}}s they sing about be this, mainly because they were actually this in real life. Like Ted Bundy, who pretended to be a handsome and sweet guy to lure in his victims.
103* Progressive rock band Music/CoheedAndCambria makes a reference to this in their song "Welcome Home", with the "bitch" context taken a little up:
104--> ''"A whore in sheep's clothing, fucking up all I do."''
105** Debatable. Considering the song is about [[AxCrazy The Writer]] not only fantasising about killing his ex-girlfriend but also talking to his bicycle, [[UnreliableNarrator one wonders how much of The Writer's side of the story we should believe]].
106** The song is featured in the rhythm game ''VideoGame/RockBand'', where the same line is changed to "A wolf in sheep's clothing, mucking up all I do".
107* The Music/ElvisPresley song, ''Devil In Disguise''. At first, the girl being described is an angel, but Elvis sees through it.
108-->''You look like an angel''\
109''walk like an angel''\
110''talk like an angel''\
111''But I got wise''\
112''You’re the devil in disguise!''
113* Referenced vaguely in Music/MumfordAndSons' "Little Lion Man".
114-->''"Your grace is wasted in your face. Your boldness stands alone among the wreck."''
115* By {{Word of God}}dess, Music/SaraBareilles considers '''herself''' one of these. She's said at more than a few interviews that she finds it very amusing that she can fill her albums with angry songs that chew people out or tell people off, and people turn around and love her for it. In her words, "You can be a total bitch, but if you say it in a [[LyricalDissonance happy, peppy, sweet way]], absolutely no one will notice."
116%%* The titular Christine in "Devil in Disguise (Christine's Tune)" by The Flying Burrito Brothers is made out to be one.
117* "Down At The End Of Your Road" by Music/JethroTull, a ''Broadsword And The Beast'' era song describing a man who, by day, is a well respected real estate businessman, yet, by night, is a JerkAss who messes with the neighbors in various ways.
118* Music/DanielAmos's "Cloak & Dagger" (from ''Music/{{Alarma}}'') is about the character type in general, not about any specific examples:
119-->There's Cold War tactics hidden in a smiling face\
120A pretty kind of poison that will leave no trace
121* Music/TaylorSwift's "Blank Space" describes a woman who turns out to be this, and explicitly refers to herself as one before the second chorus:
122--> ''"Darling, I'm a nightmare dressed like a daydream."''
123* Music/{{Set It Off|Band}} has a song called "Wolf In Sheep's Clothing", which talks about someone who manipulates people and poses as a nice person.
124* "Stupid Girl" by Music/{{Garbage}} berates a woman for faking innocence as they manipulate others.
125* "2 Faced" by Louise plays this straight, being about two-faced people, but contains a line that plays with the traditional metaphor. She describes them as "sheep in wolf's clothing", nothing to do with [[SheepInWolfsClothing the trope of the same name]], but suggesting that two-faced people believe their behavior makes them hard and tough, but in reality, they are weak and just follow the crowd.
126* “Smiling Faces Sometimes” by The Undisputed Truth could be the trope maker when it comes to people who put on a facade but beneath the surface are wicked as they come.
127* Music/OrigamiAngel: "Say Less" from ''Music/SomewhereCity'' is about someone who disrespects the singer, making fun of him in front of their friends but refusing to say it to his face. He doesn't buy it, with one line being "you're not so good at hiding the fact that you don't like me", and wishes to stand up for himself.
128* TOPS did this in their 2017 song "[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WFtFKrFlIYw Cutlass Cruiser]]". The context of the song is that there is a guy who gives his "girlfriends" a hard time. The singer is telling one of the girls that they can get themselves out of this mess.
129-->''Standing on the same road again''\
130''Sister's in the master bedroom''\
131''Time to dig that hole again''\
132''You have the tools but you did not choose them''\
133''You are a [[TitleDrop cutlass cruiser]]''\
134''I'm just a part-time loser now''\
135''Do you take scars or bruises?''\
136''All have proof that we struggled somehow''
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139[[folder:Myths & Religion]]
140* 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 ''[[ReallyGetsAround 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?
141** Aphrodite is also a good 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. 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.
142* 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.
143* 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]]; things that look beautiful can actually be out to destroy you.
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146[[folder:Pro Wrestling]]
147* Allysin Kay wants people to think of her as a [[ProperLady classy lady]]. To this end, she will compliment her opponents, give them plenty of room to enter and prepare, allow them to recover, as long as she is in control of things. Should a match ever become competitive Kay will get rough in a hurry and has even baited a few people into traps that could have well been fatal.
148* Wrestling/{{Maryse}}, in an angle with Wrestling/GailKim. She even began tag-teaming with (then-face) Gail, saying friendly things to her in English while [[BilingualBonus insulting her in French]]. ([[BilingualBackfire This backfired.]])
149* Wrestling/{{Melina}} in her appearance at Maryland Championship Wrestling's "Ladies Night" event in 2015. She served as the enforcer in the MCW Women's Championship match between Amber Rodriguez and Wrestling/MickieJames and ran Amber's henchmen out of the arena to keep them from interfering on Amber's behalf. However, after referee Wrestling/LisaMarieVaron was taken down by accident, Melina revealed her true colors and attacked Mickie, renewing their WWE rivalry. Melina was attacked by Varon, and Mickie went on to win the title.
150* Tina San Antonio feigned an injury to get out of Wrestling/{{WSU}} tag team championship defenses with Marti Belle so she could try out for Wrestling/{{WWE}}. She revealed this after relieving [[Wrestling/CarleneMoore Jazz]], who was acting in her place, and right before choking out Belle.
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154* In ''Roleplay/TheGamersAlliance'', Desdemona and [[spoiler:Vaetris]] seem genuinely nice and likable people but underneath that kind exterior, they're anything but. The former is actually a power-hungry, backstabbing schemer who killed one of the heroes and is currently manipulating King Marcus into marrying her in order to subtly take over the Remonian throne, and the latter is one of the four dreaded archdemons in disguise whose goal is to keep other races divided so that she can take over the world with her demon horde.
155* Lacrimi ap Danwyn from ''[[http://soultrigger.freeforums.net/ Soul Trigger]]'' is a ManipulativeBastard whose control freak tendencies have him seeing everyone in the galaxy as an actor of a play in which he is the director. Over his almost [[ReallySevenHundredYearsOld six centuries]] of life, he has gotten his hands into the affairs of all sorts of people and married several times, each of which tended to end with his wife's tragic death... which unbeknownst to everybody else, he causes for his own entertainment.
156* ''Roleplay/SurvivalOfTheFittest'' v4 has Aaron Hughes as a male example. He starts out wanting to start an escape plot, but throughout the game, he {{manipulat|iveBastard}}es every single character he comes across and eventually decides to play the game conventionally while still keeping the guise of the leader in an escape plot. Ashlie Jackson of ''Evolution'' is also hinted to have been one of these before being put in the experiments, and although her power rendered her unable to pull it off as much, she attempts to pull off a CuteMute facade at one point. And as early as his first appearance, Simon Leroy of ''Virtua'' is already shaping up to be a male example, who started out the game attempting to get [[ShrinkingViolet Sycanus Appletin]]'s trust by pretending to be a NiceGuy...while planning to [[ManipulativeBastard use her trust to his advantage]].
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160* 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 more powerful if its target is someone who genuinely loves the user of the style.
161* 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 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.
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164[[folder:Theatre]]
165* 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 telling him, "I hope you die. I hope you die soon."
166* In ''{{Theatre/Heathers}}'', [[spoiler:JD]] acts kindly to Veronica at first [[spoiler:and acts as a love interest to her. Turns out, [[ManipulativeBastard he was manipulating Veronica into killing the other students at their school.]]]]
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169[[folder:Web Animation]]
170* ''WebAnimation/{{Anon|Machinima}}'': 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.
171** Also Miranda. Comes across as sweet, innocent, and slightly ditzy in her introduction episodes but when her crush Ryan ends up falling for her cousin Candace, her jealousy escalates into her assaulting Candace at the Thanksgiving dinner. And when it seems like Miranda had finally taken a level in kindness, she's back to her old shit-stirring ways, lying to Candace that Ryan was trying to get with her all while pretending to be completely innocent and oblivious.
172* 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.
173* ''WebAnimation/AttackOnMika'':
174** [[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 manipulate the boys. When the boys bungle saving her from drowning, she [[spoiler:cusses the boys out, inadvertently revealing her true self. The boys stopped talking to her after that, with the exception of [[{{Gonk}} Abram]], who actually ''liked'' being cussed out by her.]]
175** PTA board president Ms. Fukuda from ''[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xIXeIKdkS7I PTA President promotes autonomy in her children, and the children give her a gift...]]'' seems like a nice, joyful, fun lady, but this is an act. She is actually a condescending authoritarian who can't tolerate the slightest bit of criticism, singling Hanae out for being the only one who doesn't bow down to her.
176** A rare male example is found in [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qSEulSQIJuc Takapiro Saionji]]. When he and protagonist Hitomi Shiroki first met, he acted cordial and nice to her, warranting her to accept his offers for dates. However, when he met her childhood friend Yuji, he insulted the fact that he came from a poor family, with her calling him out. Things worsened when he came at her with a marriage application form and revealed his true colors when she turned it down, even driving Yuji away by barring him from work at Shingeki Corporation.
177** [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0XMvckGhHoA Morao]] appears as a kind husband, but his act is exposed when a drunk Mika opened Yuka's shirt, [[spoiler:exposing the bruises he (and his mother) left all over her body. When questioned by his in-laws, he justifies the abuse under the pretense of "educating" her and deriding her as "coming from an inferior family". However, his bravado falls apart when Mika tells him she hired a detective to get proof of his abuse and a lawyer on top of asking the neighbors. He instantly begged Yuka not to tell the police.]]
178** [[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.
179* ''WebAnimation/AyasakiSan'': [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HLyNqY6OiuU&t=8s Nene Haraguro]] is a pretty girl who acts nice in public, but drops the act when no one is watching.
180* ''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 have been on track to become an ''actual'' villain if it wasn't for Giovanni taking her under his wing.
181* ''WebAnimation/HelluvaBoss'':
182** In the first episode, Martha appears to be a sweet, if glory-loving and somewhat slutty woman who does a lot of charitable work with her unfairly-earned rep. She's actually the bloodthirsty and sadistic matron of a deranged, Satanist (not a genre-savvy kind) CannibalClan with her ''only'' redeeming quality being that her clan genuinely love her and each-other.
183** Episode 4 with the cherubs has more than one example. Keenie's overly-sweet and righteous facade cracks and crumbles, revealing that she's a spiteful, bigoted and self-righteous creature who lords her holiness over anyone she perceives as inferior (which is pretty much anyone who's lower on Heaven's totem pole than her or isn't on it at all), and she bullies her meeker colleague Colin.
184** Moxxie's mob boss father Crimson in Season 2, Episode 3 is polite and refined if forceful when he greets I.M.P., but his interactions with his son and Moxxie's flashback reveal that he's actually a spiteful, sociopathic, sexist and homophobic gangster who wants to forcibly marry Moxxie off for money, and is willing to murder his son and all his friends to get them out of his way.
185* ''WebAnimation/KanonsRomComMangas'': [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PNAm53V-RjI Hina]] acts like a nice girl in front of everyone she knows, however she shows her true self to Shiro after he finds out that she was cheating on him.
186* ''WebAnimation/MangaSoprano'':
187** [[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.
188** [[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]].
189* ''WebAnimation/RefreshingStories'':
190** [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Hw1Gt2lQkOQ "Sister's boyfriend accuses her of having a plastic surgery. Just then, our parents came in..."]]: Momoka's boyfriend and manager, Kenichi, seemed unassuming at first. However, he turns out to be an abusive {{Jerkass}} when he accused her of having plastic surgery and tried to spread rumors about it to make her famous.
191** [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5PB6_q3PBX8 "Married my boss’s beautiful daughter… and found something shocking in the secret basement"]]: Toshio Hiyama seems to be a decent yet eccentric rich man who was willing to let his daughter Chinatsu marry a plain guy like Hiroshi. However, he and Chinatsu are actually [[spoiler:murderers who target their victims to claim their money or land.]]
192** [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OynhsIyYWcM "My boss forgot to turn off the camera after the Zoom meeting and..."]]: Mr. Hozuki seemed to be an exemplary employee and an understanding mentor towards Hiroshi, but it turns out to be an act when he forgets to turn off the camera for the online meeting; he thought of having an affair with his coworkers' wives was exciting while having an affair with Hiroshi's wife, Chako.
193** [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_ecvzU6gl44 "The prettiest girl rejected me because I was too poor, but little did she know I was..."]]: Back in high school, Kanako seemed to be the only one who loved Hiroshi. However, she reveals her true colors when he proposes to her as she turns him down for being poor; it turns out she colluded with [[UpperClassTwit Yuuji]] and his entourage to set Hiroshi up for rejection to get a laugh out of him.
194** [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1b5WNdcuIsU "Boss pretends to care for his family while secretly attending matchmaking parties"]]: The Section Chief seemed to be a trustworthy, stellar employee and a dedicated family man, which earned him the title of "the most likable man in the office." However, it's all an act to cover up his womanizing tendencies as he has Hiroshi arrange a matchmaking party for him and threatens to fail the poor guy in the next personnel evaluation if he doesn't do as he's told.
195* ''WebAnimation/{{RWBY}}'':
196** Emerald Sustrai masks her intentions behind a polite façade, being nice to the old shopkeep while stealing his wallet, discussing books with Tukson as a build-up to murdering him, and faking friendship with Team RWBY to obtain intel for the villains. On each occasion, her mask drops once away from the event, such as complaining to Mercury Black about his teasing or how much she dislikes the heroes' cheerfulness. [[spoiler:As a street urchin saved from starvation by Cinder Fall, her UndyingLoyalty is increasingly tested as she learns more about the villains and Cinder's unsympathetic personality. Eventually, she joins the heroes and discovers the camaraderie she's always yearned for]]].
197** Upon returning to Atlas after Beacon's destruction, Weiss Schnee becomes surprised and suspicious of her younger brother Whitley's decency, despite resenting her and her older sister Winter. She later finds out why after it's too late. [[spoiler:Their father Jacques has abused his wife and children for years; while Weiss and Winter escaped his abuse, Whitley felt his only "escape" was to comply with his father's wishes. Eventually, once Weiss has Jacques arrested, Whitley becomes an extremely useful "ideas man" whenever the heroes aren't sure what to do]].
198* ''WebAnimation/SekaiNoFushigi'': At her wedding, [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=38x1wT2SUBg Ms. Mami]] is firstly described as a "friendly person with a kind smile", but Riku's suspicions of her fakery got proven right when Ms. Yuriko, her older sister, exposes the former's malice through the wedding speech. She then leaves an envelope filled with Mami's hospital bills, investigation reports of affairs, and brand shop receipts. Moreover, it's revealed that Mami planned to have Yuriko pay for all the wedding fees afterward.
199* ''[[WebAnimation/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.]]
200* ''WebAnimation/TanabataManga'': [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mbTL3PLRols Ryuji Kuraki]] appears to be a nice guy to his fiancée, Lili; [[spoiler: however, he only wants to marry Lili because [[GoldDigger he wants to get her family's money]]. Whenever Lili is not around, Ryuji abuses her daughter Mimi because [[ChildHater he hates children]] and he also turns out to have a lover behind Lili's back.]]
201* ''WebAnimation/TroubleBusters'': [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3z-Z1Nxb06k Aaron's]] girlfriend Sharon seemed to be a nice woman. On the day of their wedding, Aaron got into an accident while trying to save a kid and couldn't attend the wedding on time. When he arrived, Sharon showed her true colors and called off the wedding and they broke up.
202* ''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]].]]
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206* ''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 the jealous servants and Camille’s older brother, but she does not want to trouble him with the knowledge that she’s tormented. Except 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.
207* ''Webcomic/CashmereSky:'' Daphne establishes herself as this in Volume 2. When she needs help with her science project, she tries buttering up Enzo to try to get him to be her partner, then offering to have him be seen with her to boost his social status when he sees through it. When he refuses on both fronts, she's visibly a hair's length from snapping and opts to set fire to the radio he was working on when he isn't looking to incentivize him to partner up with her.
208* ''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. 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.
209* ''Webcomic/GeneralProtectionFault'' has Trudy, who puts up a polite façade to Dwayne (her boss) and Nick (the guy she likes), as well as various people whose good side she needs to stay on, but treats everyone else like dirt. In fact, for the first few years, she was outright evil, scheming with the supervillain organization CRUDE to take over the world, and [[YouHaveOutlivedYourUsefulness disposing of her former allies once they're no longer useful]].
210* ''Webcomic/GhostTheater'': The ghost of Pureun Shim seems to be an innocent, guileless girl who wants to say goodbye to her father before passing on, which the protagonists do their best to assist her with. It turns out to be a ruse so she can murder him. It's hard to call her too much of a bitch, though, since her father sold her to human traffickers to support his gambling addiction.
211* ''Webcomic/GirlGenius'':
212** Zola seems to be an innocent, rather ditzy pawn of high-ranking plotters, but she's really [[spoiler:a calculating villain, fully aware of what she's involved in, and possibly the biggest threat Agatha faces]].
213** Giles Heterodyne, third-younger brother of the Castle's master at the time, joined the clergy and, through forty-two years of working his way up, was finally ordained Pope... [[spoiler:Whereupon he prompty [[https://www.girlgeniusonline.com/comic.php?date=20210802 grafted wings onto the entire college of cardinals and looted the Papal Library.]] The family was ''very'' proud of him.]]
214* ''Webcomic/TheGuideToAHealthyRelationship'': Daniel is a friendly and charming young man who's easily liked by Apollo and his circle of friends. As to his home life, he manipulates and abuses his romantic partner, a mentally ill person.
215* ''Webcomic/HisFaceAllRed'': The narrator is a quiet, unassuming nerd who wishes he could be as well-liked as [[TheAce his older brother]]. So he [[CainAndAbel murders him]] [[TheResenter out of jealousy]].
216* ''Webcomic/{{Homestuck}}'': When the characters traveling on the meteor to the new session meet [[spoiler:Aranea Serket, Vriska's dancestor]] as a ghost in the dream bubbles, she seems to be a friendly, helpful [[MrExposition Ms. Exposition]] who provides other characters, and especially the reader, with lots of useful information. She's also best friends with [[spoiler:Meenah]] and is very kind to and supportive of her dancestor [[spoiler:Vriska]]. Dave, Rose, and Terezi all comment separately on how nice she is. Over the course of Meenah's flash games, several other members of the A1 session, Meenah especially, comment her like she's an AttentionWhore who wants to be the most important player in the game, and actually pays people to listen to exposition they already know because she loves hearing herself talk. When John meets her, she and [[spoiler:Vriska]] are mind-controlling hundreds of ghosts to use as fodder against Lord English. Finally, she steals the Ring of Life to resurrect herself, plans to stop Lord English her own way, and is willing to hurt or kill any of the main characters who don't go along with it. During her ill-fated attempt to carry out her plans, she [[spoiler:pulls a MindRape on Jake (who previously had a crush on her), kills Jade, unintentionally kills Jake when he tries to save Jane from her, kills Jane anyway, mortally wounds Terezi, and destroys several of the kids' Lands before [[DragonWithAnAgenda the Condesce]] finally manages to off her]].
217* ''Webcomic/JoeVsElanSchool'':
218** The titular school is this as a whole; they've perfected ways of making it look like it's a lovely rehabilitation facility for troubled teens, effectively covering up its abuses.
219** 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."
220** Ditto Christy, whose cruelty gets a lot of attention in the story. On Joe's graduation day, Christy berates and threatens Joe for about an hour before giving an impassioned speech about how Joe is a "hero" and a "shining example."
221* ''Webcomic/MarryMyHusband'': Sumin, the 'best friend' of Jiwon. She admits that she sought Jiwon out to make herself look good, and during high school set up bullies against her during the incident with Eunho Baek. As Minhwan is also this to a certain extent, Jiwon comments internally that they were made for each other.
222* ''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 pushed her into a river. All the while, she'd been acting like a friend.
223* ''Webcomic/PerfectMarriageRevenge'':
224** 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 even 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.
225** 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]].
226* ''Webcomic/{{Rebirth}}'': Parish appears like a sweet wife, but...she ignores one of her sons while doting on the other, she betrayed Noah in the previous timeline, and [[spoiler: she's had an affair with Ian for years.]] She's never been that good at hiding this side of her.
227* Ryan from ''Webcomic/{{Sidekicks}}'' is introduced as another supublic that failed [[SuperheroSchool Justice College]] being sent to the Under Corps and he acts like any other corpsman, even trying to help the heroes when shit hits the fan. [[spoiler:He's actually Phantom, an infamous villain whose real appearance has never been seen and who possesses a [[MassHypnosis powerful mind control power]]. Having acted as TheMole for [[BigBad Metheos]] for a while, his cover is blown by a telepath he'd just finished controlling.]]
228* ''Webcomic/SurvivorFanCharacters'': Bonnie used this trope to great effect in season 9, pretending to be a sweet and innocent girl to hide her ManipulativeBitch true colors. If not for an EngineeredPublicConfession [[SpannerInTheWorks staged by a seemingly useless robot]], she could very well have walked away with the million. She tried this tactic again in season 16, pretending to be Bonnie's kind therapist with "Bonnie" being an actress hired by her, but this time her tribemates saw through her act much more quickly.
229* ''Webcomic/VampireCheerleaders'': Heather may have seemed sweet and innocent, but it didn't take much for her to reveal her true colors, and it didn't take long either. All she needed was [[EvilFeelsGood a taste of power.]] After choosing to become a vampire, she [[https://web.archive.org/web/20111121011643/http://www.vampirecheerleaders.net/strips-vc/meet_the_parents_3 turned on]] [[https://web.archive.org/web/20111121011648/http://www.vampirecheerleaders.net/strips-vc/meet_the_parents_4 her own parents]]; reducing them to being [[https://web.archive.org/web/20140331112450/http://www.vampirecheerleaders.net/strips-vc/heather_gets_a_baby_sister her mindless slaves.]]
230* ''Webcomic/ZiggyPigAndSillySeal2022 '': Used by Ziggy Pig when he is interviewed on the ''Daily Bugle'' and angelically apologizes for the current rampage of bad behavior from the animal community (which he [[FrameUp secretly started]]).
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234* [[http://akaichounokoe.deviantart.com/gallery/?q=paper+#/d4z3yme Toki is kind and gentle to some but bitchy to others]] Actually, make that abusive.
235* This article of [[http://www.heartless-bitches.com/rants/niceguys/niceguys.shtml [=HearlessBitches.com=]]] is a rant about the EntitledToHaveYou sort of person.
236* Solange of the ''Literature/WhateleyUniverse'' started out this way. As a frosh, she was kind and understanding to Montana even though he looked like a sasquatch... and then she publicly humiliated him. All so she could force her way into the top clique of the school.
237* ''WebVideo/WormwoodInstitute'': The male host of the program seems very cheery when delivering whatever news story on the tapes, but when the news broadcast is done for the day, he doesn't hesitate to act as a jerkward to his co-host for saying a line in the script incorrectly.
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241* ''WebVideo/AirProTexts'': [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CfFvVzH_RCs Tina]] seemed to be the perfect girlfriend to Rod. However it turned out that [[spoiler:she lied to Rod about his mother abusing her when it turned out that she had found out that she was cheating on him and had a dark past.]]
242* ''{{WebVideo/Gameboys}}'': Terrence. At first he projects this scorned but concerned ex of Gavreel to Cairo by sowing doubt about Gav's advances. He is also concurrently trying to rekindle his relationship with Gav behind Cairo's back. He grows out of it in later episodes though.
243* WebVideo/TheNostalgiaChick combined this with a UsefulNotes/SarahPalin impression to try and [[TheStarscream overthrow]] the Critic during WebVideo/{{Kickassia}}. To a less homicidal extent, how she is normally. [[ComedicSociopathy There's]] [[ManipulativeBastard something]] [[BrokenBird darker]] underneath that [[GirlishPigtails cute]], girly exterior.
244* ''WebVideo/TheVeronicaExclusive'': Jane comes off as a sarcastic but charming outcast at first, and seems to be a genuinely loving girlfriend. Then the bodies of her enemies start piling up, and you find out that her love really [[{{Yandere}} isn't something you want]].
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