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13->'''Creator/BenKingsley:''' Have you ever noticed how, in Hollywood movies, all the villains are played by Brits?\
14'''Creator/MarkStrong:''' Maybe we just sound right.\
15'''Creator/TomHiddleston:''' ''[flying in an open helicopter without spilling a drop of [[BritsLoveTea his tea]]]'' We're more focused. More precise.\
16'''Strong:''' We're always one step ahead.\
17'''Kingsley:''' With a certain style; an eye for detail.\
18'''Hiddleston:''' And we're ''obsessed'' by power! A stiff upper lip is key.\
19'''Strong:''' And we all drive Jaguars.\
20'''Kingsley:''' Ohhh yes. It's good to be bad.
21-->-- '''[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wiXIBz9aQoU Jaguar 2014 Super Bowl commercial: "British Villains"]]'''
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23Any 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 (EvilIsCool / [[WickedCultured Evil Is Posh]] after all!), mild eye-rolling amusement (tsk, ''Americans'') OR annoyance at the apparent [[NationalStereotypes national stereotyping]].
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25The exact origin of this trope is unknown, but American examples of it probably have roots in nationalistic pride given the United States' world-famous origin story: UsefulNotes/TheAmericanRevolution. Ergo, American accent = good, British accent = bad.
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27This includes all evil characters with British accents (where the rest of the cast has American accents), whether or not they are actually stated to be British. Quite a few of these are not actual Brits but have anomalous quasi-British (usually vaguely upper-class and English, as noted above) accents in settings where almost everyone else has some sort of American accent and no one is necessarily supposed to be from either country, just to mark that character as villainous. As you might expect, this version appears to be associated with films and shows in which the use of English is (at least weakly implied to be) a TranslationConvention for whatever the characters are "really" saying, although it's not exclusive to them. See TheQueensLatin and AliensOfLondon, when British accents (especially Received Pronunciation) are used for non-British characters.
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29Villains of this type come in two flavours. The first is usually [[AristocratsAreEvil wealthy and snobbish]], and probably quite [[WickedCultured well]] [[SmartPeopleSpeakTheQueensEnglish educated]]. The second is the [[LowerClassLout hooligan]] with the [[UsefulNotes/{{London}} Cockney]] (or [[SmallReferencePools similar]]) accent.
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31This is fairly recent since during Hollywood's Golden Age it was acceptable for the good guys to speak with an upper-class English accent as well.
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33The Romans, who generally are the baddies in most historical films, are almost always [[TheQueensLatin played by English actors]]. The British also are often the [[EvilColonialist imperial bad guys]] in Hong Kong kung-fu flicks and other Asian series. World War II films using the TranslationConvention usually have Nazis [[BritishNazis played by Brits as well]]. [[UsefulNotes/TheTroubles Surpri]][[UsefulNotes/TheIrishQuestion singly]], they are quite rare in Irish films.
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35In Hollywood at least, this may be a product of different acting traditions. Simplifying wildly, Americans go into movie acting to be rich, famous, and loved by the audience; Brits go into acting because they like ''acting'', and some who do well at it then go to Hollywood for the money. With, on average, more training, more experience, less need to be loved, and a cheerful interest in any well-paying gig, they can often make excellent charismatic villains. Of course, it seems that there are also people in Hollywood with a cultural aversion to Britain who are all too happy to cast them in these parts.
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37Given the way in which American fans often respond to British accents, fandoms sometimes turn this sort of character into DracoInLeatherPants. In non-Western eyes, expect most evil British characters to have [[WhiteHairBlackHeart white hair]].
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39Contrast BritishStuffiness, which may be applied to a [[StraightMan nominally heroic]] character who [[DeathOfTheHypotenuse must]] [[IJustWantMyBelovedToBeHappy nevertheless]] DieForOurShip. Also, contrast QuintessentialBritishGentleman, which can apply to [[GentlemanAndAScholar usually heroic and good-aligned characters]], who pride themselves as chivalrous gentlemen, displaying impeccable manners whilst helping others.
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41Doesn't really apply in British works, of course. In those, this role is often given to the [[FrenchJerk French]], [[GermanicDepressives Germans]], [[BalkanBastard people from the Balkans]] or (rarely, especially nowadays) [[EvilStatesOfAmerica Americans]].
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43See also IAmVeryBritish.
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51* Discussed in [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wiXIBz9aQoU the 2014 Super Bowl Jaguar commercial]] quoted above with Creator/BenKingsley, Creator/TomHiddleston, and Creator/MarkStrong, who have all played villains[[note]]and have [[Film/IronMan3 all]] [[Film/TheAvengers2012 been]] [[Film/SherlockHolmes2009 opposite]] Creator/RobertDowneyJr[[/note]], though technically they do nothing villainous in the commercial itself. The commercial was also directed by a Brit, Tom Hooper of ''Film/TheKingsSpeech''.
52-->''[[EvilIsCool It's Good to be Bad.]]''
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56* ''Anime/BeybladeBurst'' has a British antagonist in the seventh season complete with a healthy dose of SmartPeopleSpeakTheQueensEnglish and a side of elemental power called Pax Forsythe.
57* ''Anime/MomotarosDivineSeaWarriors'' is a Japanese propaganda film from April 1945, and the British are the bad guys. A flashback sequence shows how British pirates lied to, manipulated, and conquered the natives of a Pacific island, which the Japanese then set out to liberate.
58* ''Manga/JoJosBizarreAdventure'' :
59** Dio Brando is very, very evil. This only applies to him in Part 3, since Part 1 is set in England, meaning everyone else is also British.
60** Diego "Dio" Brando from Part 7, which is set in America (while Diego is born in Britain), is a {{downplayed}} case. While he always puts his interests above the well-being of others [[spoiler:and even left Wekapipo to die]], his motives are no more evil than trying to reach a position of power and [[EvenBadMenLoveTheirMamas avenge his dead mother]] [[spoiler:[[HazyFeelTurn and he ultimately sides with the heroes, even if it's for his own benefits]]]]. Interestingly enough, the BigBad is actually [[PresidentEvil the president of America]].
61*** [[spoiler:[[FinalBoss The alternate universe Diego "Dio" Brando]], however, plays this trope straight, lacking the original Diego's sympathetic traits and being far more evil, trying to finish the BigBad's plans, using his fangirls as human shields and attempting to rape Lucy Steel, a 14-year old girl.]]
62* ''[[Anime/ReadOrDie R.O.D. The TV]]''. Britain IS the villain. Well, the British Library, at any rate...
63* ''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 {{Token Good Teammate}}s, but its actual culture and society beyond its imperialism is barely explored.
64** In the only real straight example, Luciano Bradley is given a British accent in the English dub.
65* Bakura in the American English dub of ''Anime/YuGiOh'', although his British accent sounds more pronounced when he's his mild-mannered self rather than his SuperpoweredEvilSide. The accent was how the dubbers tried to match his use of polite UsefulNotes/JapaneseHonorifics in the original.
66* In ''{{Anime/Robotech}}'', the Zentraedi Commander Khyron Kravshera sports a pseudo-British accent. The novels based on the series even note that he sounds just like James Mason. He really does. Interestingly enough, Khyron was voiced by actor Greg Snegoff who also was the voice of Scott Bernard, a character that sounds nothing like Khyron. Even more interestingly, the Southern Cross (Robotech Masters) segment had a minor character named Alan Fredericks who was also voiced by Snegoff in a Khyron-like voice. However, Fredericks was more erudite and reserved than Khyron. Appropriate since Fredericks was a good guy, even if he was a member of the GMP.
67* ''Franchise/DragonBall'':
68** In the Creator/FUNimation dub of ''Anime/DragonBallZ'', King Cold, Freeza's father, was voiced with a British accent, as was Perfect Cell / Super Perfect Cell. Strangely, in the dubbed versions of ''Manga/DragonBall'', despite General Blue's not-so-subtle hints at being of [[AllGermansAreNazis German origin]], Blue was given a British accent.
69** Freeza himself was given a slight British accent in ''Anime/DragonBallZKai'', courtesy of Creator/ChrisAyres. In another dub, Dr. Gero was also given a slight British accent.
70** In ''Anime/DragonBallSuper'', Zamasu and Goku Black both have British accents, the latter of whom obtains one after changing into his Super Saiyan Rosé form. [[spoiler: Their accent is also a sign that Black and Zamasu are the same being.]]
71* The ''Anime/PokemonTheOriginalSeries'' English dub went out of its way to show us what a bastard Ash's Charmander's original owner was by giving him a god-awful Creator/DickVanDyke-esque cockney accent.
72* Subverted with Edo Phoenix from ''Anime/YuGiOhGX''. While he was introduced as a sort-of-antagonist and his Destiny HERO monsters were not looking like good guys, he turned out to be an AntiHero. His deck references the culture of England, but rather the darker side of it.
73* As the result of Creator/JBBlanc, who spent most of his childhood in England[[note]]Blanc was born in France and went with his mother when she moved back to England[[/note]], who's more than capable of doing [[FakeAmerican an American accent]], NotEvenBotheringWithTheAccent as Obadiah Stane in ''Anime/IronManRiseOfTechnovore'', Stane became this trope
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77* Big M. from ''Animation/HappyHeroes'' is the main antagonist of the show and is given a British accent in a small handful of Miao Mi's English-dubbed episodes. Also doubles as AliensOfLondon since he's a {{Human Alien|s}}.
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81%%* ''AudioPlay/TheElysiumProject'' has the BigBad Gabriel.
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85* Mad Mod, a minor ComicBook/TeenTitans villain from TheSixties, who is probably better these days known for his appearance in the ''WesternAnimation/TeenTitans2003'' cartoon, was a Carnaby Street fashion designer whose assumed name is derived from the Mod style popular in England at the time. He used his label as a front to smuggle goods inside his clothing. After being foiled, he later hatched a plot to steal the Queen of Britain's scepter but was stopped as well.
86%%* Toad from ComicBook/XMen was born in York, England.
87* Franchise/{{Superman}} villain Manchester Black. Other than his thick English accent, omnipresent Union Jack tattoo, and a few snippets he told about his life, very little is known about his background, although he is most likely from the city of Manchester, England.
88* ComicBook/{{Hawkman}} and ComicBook/JusticeSocietyOfAmerica villain [[Characters/{{Hawkman}} Gentleman Ghost]] was the son of an English gentleman who abandoned both him and his mother, forcing them into poverty. He grew up to become a notorious highwayman and robber who terrorized England in the 1800s before eluding death to rise again as a phantom.
89* 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 ''ComicBook/TheFallOfDeadworld'' series, which establishes that the Dark Judges are from an alternate America.
90* ''ComicBook/{{Batman}}'':
91** DependingOnTheWriter, Oswald Cobblepot, otherwise known as The Penguin, has dual citizenship by descent and tends to use more English expressions, slang, and swears than Americanisms.
92** Jervis Tetch, criminal alias Mad Hatter, is obsessed with the writings of British author Creator/LewisCarroll, and has based his identity off of the Hatter character appearing in ''Literature/AlicesAdventuresInWonderland'' and the story's sequel ''Literature/ThroughTheLookingGlass''.
93** ''ComicBook/Robin1993'': Recurring foe Sir Edmund Dorrance aka King Snake hates that he lives past the age of British colonialism, it's not so much that he seems particularly proud to be British, he's just incredibly racist and misogynistic, thinks himself above everyone else and hates that foreign (and his own) governments take issue with his trying to subjugate, torture and kill people.
94* LowerClassLout Billy Butcher in ''ComicBook/TheBoys'' had high-functioning psychopathy and was more ChaoticNeutral than full-on evil. Though he was violent, unstable, and manipulative, he was very much capable of concern for his fellow man. Though this concern was largely kept to his closest allies. Everyone else meant little to him, and he outright ''[[FantasticRacism hated]]'' [[DifferentlyPoweredIndividual supes]] [[spoiler: to the point of [[HeWhoFightsMonsters trying to enact a]] FinalSolution against them]].
95* ''ComicBook/{{Tomahawk}}'': Lord Shilling, the British master spy and MasterOfDisguise who was the ArchEnemy of the titular character.
96* ''ComicBook/WonderWoman'':
97** The ComicBook/PostCrisis version of ComicBook/WonderWoman foe the ComicBook/{{Cheetah}} was a British archeologist named Barbara-Ann Minerva. The ''ComicBook/New52'' reboot relocated her to Idado, but her Nottinghamshire background was restored in ''ComicBook/DCRebirth'', although that also made her more of a TragicVillain.
98** The Tomas Byde version of the Duke of Deception from ''ComicBook/TheLegendOfWonderWoman2016'' is British, made a deal with Ares, is working with the Nazis and using illusions and Nazi Zombies to ambush and painfully kill allied soldiers.
99* ''ComicBook/RequiemVampireKnight'' has Dystopia, an undead version of UsefulNotes/TheBritishEmpire from {{Hell}} whose inhabitants are [[ReptilesAreAbhorrent greedy reptilian monsters]]. Their capital is named Donlon (London not-quite-backwards) and their monarch, [[GodSaveUsFromTheQueen Queen Perfidia]], is strangely uncanny to UsefulNotes/ElizabethI. [[spoiler:And who their greatest champion is revealed to be? '''Myth/KingArthur''']].
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103* ''Fanfic/BeastBoyAndRavenJoinPETA'': Ingrid Newkirk, Founder and President of PETA, is British-American and a BitchInSheepsClothing.
104* ''Fanfic/MortalKombatKhronicles'': Kano's mentor and the former leader of The Black Dragon, Trev, ''may'' have been this. Though Kano himself admits that he was not sure and he could have passed for South African too. And being an international criminal, Trev wasn't big on sharing his background. [[note]]This is probably a reference to Creator/TrevorGoddard, Kano's actor in ''Film/MortalKombatTheMovie'', who's [[UsefulNotes/BritishAccents English Accent]] was mistaken for Australian by viewers, leading to Kano's AwesomeAussie portrayal in subsequent instalments.[[/note]]
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108* The Egyptians in ''WesternAnimation/ThePrinceOfEgypt'' have British accents (and are played by some very fine English actors), while the Hebrews are "Americans". Moses also has an American accent despite having grown up in the Egyptian royal family.
109* Many Franchise/DisneyAnimatedCanon villains have vaguely British accents; some manage to have them while being [[WesternAnimation/{{Aladdin}} Arabian]] or [[WesternAnimation/TheHunchbackOfNotreDameDisney French]]. Or [[WesternAnimation/TheLionKing1994 carnivorous]] [[WesternAnimation/TheJungleBook1967 cats]].
110** The Lion King example is particularly notable in that Creator/JeremyIrons' Scar is [[EvilUncle directly related to]] the rest of the (American-voiced) cast.
111** In ''WesternAnimation/{{Pinocchio}}'', the Coachman has a Cockney accent despite the story taking place in Tuscany, UsefulNotes/{{Italy}}.
112** ZigZaggedTrope in ''WesternAnimation/RobinHood1973''. Prince John has a thick British accent and is the main antagonist of the movie. On the other hand, Robin, Maid Marian and several other sympathetic characters have British accents too, which isn't surprising considering that the movie is set in England.
113** ''WesternAnimation/{{Tarzan}}'' plays this straight with Clayton and his henchmen, who originated from the United Kingdom and only used the trip to Africa as a means of poaching the gorillas inside the jungle that the titular charater is living in, simply out of greed.
114* Tai Lung from ''WesternAnimation/KungFuPanda''. Being voiced by Creator/IanMcShane just makes him more badass. [[WesternAnimation/KungFuPanda2 The sequel]] does it again, with new villain Lord Shen being voiced by Creator/GaryOldman.
115* In ''WesternAnimation/TheSecretOfNIMH2TimmyToTheRescue'', when Martin becomes evil, he inexplicably switches to a British accent (voiced by [[Creator/MontyPython Eric Idle]], no less), only for it to change back to his American accent (and voice) when he becomes good again.
116* In ''WesternAnimation/FantasticMrFox'', ''every single bad guy'', literally, has a British accent (except Rat, who has a Cajun accent), while every good guy has an American accent. WordOfGod says that this film uses a TranslationConvention whereby the animals have American accents (so [[Creator/WesAnderson the director]] could cast [[ProductionPosse his favourite actors]]) and the humans have English accents (as a nod to [[Creator/RoaldDahl the author]]). It's ''pure coincidence'' that [[HumansAreBastards all the humans in the story are villains]]...
117** Lampshaded in the promotional interviews by Creator/BillMurray, who proclaimed that the villains had British accents ''because'' they were the villains.
118* The BigBad of ''WesternAnimation/AnAmericanTailFievelGoesWest'', Cat R. Waul, is one of these. Voiced by Creator/JohnCleese at that.
119%%* Every. Single. Franchise/{{Barbie}}. Film.
120%%** Except for WesternAnimation/BarbieAndTheSecretDoor, where Malucia is clearly American [[note]]Well, technically Canadian, since, like most of the Barbie movies, it was made in Canada with Canadian voice actors[[/note]].
121%%** Others include Henna from Mariposa, Raquelle in the various movies (mainly Barbie Diaries) (who is technically American), Myron from Thumbelina, Crystal from Fairy Secret, Eris from Mermaid Tale, Crider from Princess and the Popstar, who are all Canadian.
122* There are two candidates for BigBad in the movie ''Anime/ResidentEvilDegeneration''. Between the spineless, obnoxious asshole Senator Ron Davis and the polite, -talking Brit Frederic Downing, which do ''you'' think ends up being the true villain responsible for the outbreak? The first guess doesn't count.
123** In the main film series, the holographic manifestation of the [[CreepyChild Red]] [[AIIsACrapshoot Queen]] is a British little girl.
124* In ''WesternAnimation/{{Cars 2}}'', the mastermind behind the Lemons' plot is [[spoiler: Sir Miles Axlerod, who's voiced by Creator/EddieIzzard, no less.]]
125* Creator/JohnHurt as The Horned King in Disney's film adaptation of ''WesternAnimation/TheBlackCauldron''. The heroes also have British accents, however.
126* In the ''Literature/RainbowMagic'' movie, Jack Frost is this -- though, like ''The Black Cauldron'', the heroes are also British.
127* Jude Law, the only British actor in ''WesternAnimation/RiseOfTheGuardians'', predictably turns out to be the villain.
128* In ''WesternAnimation/QuestForCamelot'', The BigBad Ruber is voiced by the British actor Creator/GaryOldman.
129%%* Principal Revenant from Monster High.
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133* In Australian Westerns like ''Film/CaptainThunderbolt'', ''[[Film/NedKelly1970 Ned Kelly]]'' (1970), ''Film/TheOutlawMichaelHowe'', and ''Film/VanDiemensLand'' the BigBad prison governor is usually an upper-class Englishman with a hatred of the Irish. In ''Film/MadDogMorgan,'' DirtyCop Sgt. Smith is a vicious Cockney, and his boss Cobham is a HangingJudge who speaks perfect Queen's English.
134** The trope is also seen with the brutal aristocratic Colonel in Kiwi Western {{Film/Utu}} who treats the massacre of unarmed Maori like a fox hunt.
135* 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 criminal roles in ''Film/{{Snatch}}'' and ''Film/LockStockAndTwoSmokingBarrels'', where most of the cast have some form of UK accent.
136* Creator/AlanRickman and Creator/JasonIsaacs were famously typecast in these roles.
137** This is the driving force behind both men's careers; after ''Film/RobinHoodPrinceOfThieves'', Rickman began declining villain roles to avoid TypeCasting (including turning down Creator/SeanBean's role in ''Film/GoldenEye''). He also nearly turned down playing Severus Snape in ''Film/HarryPotter'' before JK Rowling let him know that there was more to Snape than what met the eye.
138** And Creator/JeremyIrons'.
139** And, going back a bit, Creator/GeorgeSanders.
140** And Creator/TerryThomas.
141** 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 (although his character is ''[[NotEvenBotheringWithTheAccent supposed]]'' [[NotEvenBotheringWithTheAccent to be East German]]).
142** The topic of British villains in movies and Rickman in particular was discussed on Creator/StephenFry's panel show ''Series/{{QI}}'' where they surmised that Americans subconsciously see the British as [[GoodRepublicEvilEmpire tyrannical]] and [[ManipulativeBastard machiavellian]] because of the legacy of the Revolutionary War, while on ''Series/TopGear'', Scottish actor Creator/BrianCox suggested to Jeremy Clarkson that Brits were cast as the baddies in Hollywood movies because Americans "fundamentally mistrust intelligence."
143** Averted for Rickman in ''Film/GalaxyQuest''. At his worst, his character Alexander Dane is a bit snobby and a ClassicallyTrainedExtra who loathes his most famous gig as being beneath him, but an awestruck alien fan who reveres him as a genuine hero causes Dane to eventually embrace the role.
144--->'''Kevin [=McDonald=]:''' ''(on Alex)'' Give him a hand - he's British!
145* ''{{Film/Alien 3}}'': Because of [[UsefulNotes/{{London}} where it was filmed]], this film's [[SingleBiomePlanet Prison Planet]] is filled with mostly with British actors including Creator/PaulMcGann as an AxCrazy inmate.
146* ''Literature/AllQuietOnTheWesternFront'': The 1970s film had German characters played by English-speakers: all the likable characters sounded American while the cruel drill-sergeant and the blood-thirsty new recruit sounded British.
147* ''Film/AnacondasTheHuntForTheBloodOrchid'': The British team member is the only one to turn WellIntentionedExtremist in the search for the rare and immensely valuable [[MacGuffin blood orchid]], willfully sacrificing his colleagues to do so.
148* ''Film/AustinPowers'':
149** Fat Bastard is a rare example of one with a (faked) Scottish accent.
150** [[spoiler:Dr. Evil himself turns out to be British-born [[JustifiedTrope because]] he is [[LukeIAmYourFather Austin's brother]].]]
151* ''Film/Bedazzled2000'': Liz Hurley as Satan. Given that the first movie was British, and [[ForeignFanservice it helps]] [[EverythingSoundsSexierInFrench the sexiness]], it's [[JustifiedTrope Justified]].
152%%* ''Film/BeverlyHillsCop'': Victor Maitland.
153* ''Film/BlueThunder'': Gave us Col. F.E. Cochrane, complete with irritating catchphrase and requisite accent.
154* ''Film/{{Braveheart}}'': Averted with the Scots (with a few exceptions) and the Irish. Played straight with the English.
155* ''Film/BulletproofMonk'':
156** Mister Funktastic. Interestingly, he was originally supposed to have a BigDamnHeroes moment during the StormingTheCastle scene by coming to Kar and Jade's aid. Sadly, this was cut.
157** The BigBad's granddaughter and NumberTwo has a British accent. Possibly, she deliberately cultivated it to hide her Nazi roots.
158%%* Creator/CharlesDance: He has played an Evil Brit in at least two movies: ''Film/TheGoldenChild'' (devil worshipper) and ''Film/LastActionHero'' (assassin).
159* Nearly all of the storybook villains from the ''Film/ChildrensPartyAtThePalace'', as they’re all from British literature and the theatre-film production was filmed in London. Exceptions are the Grand High Witch and the Child-Catcher, who speak with German accents.
160%%* Creator/ChristopherLee: Although he's a specialist villain actor anyway.
161* ''Film/TheChroniclesOfNarnia'': Inverted in the films, where the only characters in the series with American accents are the evil wolves and the heroes are all British.
162* ''Film/{{Cliffhanger}}'': Creator/JohnLithgow played the lead bad guy with a strangulated upper-class English accent whilst most of his team was played by actual Brits.
163* ''Film/{{Constantine}}'': [[spoiler:While the half-breed angel Gabriel technically doesn't have any specified nationality (especially in the theological perspective), he surprisingly speaks with a British accent, due to the fact that his portrayer Creator/TildaSwinton is a British woman herself.]]
164* Creator/DavidWarner:
165** He is another British actor who can't help sounding evil so he might as well play mostly villains. He was Billy Zane's BattleButler, Lovejoy, in ''Film/{{Titanic 1997}}'', and UsefulNotes/JackTheRipper in ''Film/TimeAfterTime''.
166** He pulled triple duty as a baddie in ''Film/{{TRON}}'' by playing human antagonist Edward Dillinger and the evil program Sark, as well as providing the voice for the BigBad, the Master Control Program. The casting got [[LampshadeHanging Lampshaded]] by the director in the DVD extras as an American thing.
167** One rare aversion to this was an appearance on ''Series/BabylonFive'', where he played a kindly (though tough) old man who politely asked the various alien ambassadors if any of them had come across the Holy Grail. Unfortunately, he was TooCoolToLive. He also played Admiral Tolwyn in ''Film/WingCommander'', one of the few higher-ups who have no problems with Blair's ancestry (Tolwyn was, in fact, close friends with Blair's parents).
168* ''Film/DeadInTombstone'' has Judah Clark: [[CorruptCorporateExecutive a mine owner]] who happily cuts a deal with Red and the Blackwater Gang to keep the money flowing into his coffers, even if it means the rest of the town is living in virtual slavery.
169* Creator/{{Disney}}: If several Disney animated films feature British-sounding villains, also Walt Disney himself was somewhat of an Anglophile and some of the films he produced in the '50s and '60s are set in Britain with British casts and heroes. Likely because of his ancestry - the last name "Disney" comes from the village of Norton Disney in Lincolnshire (UK).
170* ''Literature/{{Dreamcatcher}}'':
171** Has a particularly odd example - all of the characters start off with American accents, but as soon as one guy gets infected by TheVirus and becomes the BigBad he starts talking with an upper-class British accent.
172** The same thing happened in the early (1970s) ''Series/{{Battlestar Galactica|1978}}''. Two teen boys who rejected the advice of Starbuck and Apollo ended up becoming evil and acquiring British accents. Which they lost once they had learned the error of their ways!
173* ''Franchise/TheFastAndTheFurious'' - both in-universe and real life.
174** Owen Shaw in ''Film/FastAndFurious6'', even though the actor (Creator/LukeEvans) is Welsh.
175** His brother Deckard Shaw in the subsequent movies - this time played by English Creator/JasonStatham.
176* ''Film/AFishCalledWanda'': Completely an InvertedTrope. While almost all the characters are morally suspect, Creator/KevinKline's character Otto (one of two Americans in the movie) is the biggest scoundrel of them all, while the most (relatively) morally upright character is Creator/JohnCleese's Archie. The fact that a Brit, the aforementioned John Cleese, wrote the film might have had something to do with it...
177* George Zucco: This classic British character actor (who starred in many horror movies from the '30s and '40s) combined this trope with BaldOfEvil to good effect.
178* ''G-Force'':
179** Creator/BillNighy plays the main villain known as Saber in this Disney flick, who wants to take over the world, and in the trailer even blatantly says he wants to do so.
180** [[spoiler: It's actually misleading. Saber ''did'' want to take over the world but in a good way. The real villain was TheManBehindTheMan, who double-crossed Saber into turning every single product made by his company into a weapon]].
181* ''The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo'': The English dub has all the characters voiced by American actors except for the scene where Lisbeth gets mugged in the subway by a group of people who are given English accents.
182* ''Gone In Sixty Seconds'': Creator/ChristopherEccleston. He shows he's evil [[CulturalPosturing because he doesn't like baseball.]]
183* ''Film/HighSchoolMusical3SeniorYear'': Tiara Gold, who is proven to be ''far'' nastier than her rival Sharpay Evans (who at least [[HairOfGoldHeartOfGold has some standards]] and managed to [[HeelFaceTurn completely change]] for the better).
184* ''Film/IndianaJonesAndTheLastCrusade'':
185** Has a rather meta subversion. British actor Creator/JulianGlover played the main villain, but [[FakeAmerican with an American accent]]. Similarly, the English Paul Freeman plays the French Rene Belloq in ''Film/RaidersOfTheLostArk''.
186** In ''Film/IndianaJonesAndTheKingdomOfTheCrystalSkull'' [[spoiler: Indy's old friend Mac is a Cockney who does a HeelFaceRevolvingDoor throughout the movie, ultimately betraying Indy in the end.]]
187*** Creator/JulianGlover has, in fact, played villains in ''Film/JamesBond, Film/HarryPotter, Franchise/StarWars, Franchise/IndianaJones, Series/DoctorWho'', and elsewhere, most of them with a Brit accent.
188* ''Film/IpMan2'': The British are portrayed as opponents and racist to the Chinese, including a [[PoliceBrutality brutal policeman]] and a boxer called Twister who takes sexual pleasure in brutally beating sick and elderly Chinese Warriors to death.
189* Irish movies: Surprisingly rare in these movies but one place they ''do'' turn up is in films set during the Anglo-Irish War. See ''Film/MichaelCollins'' or ''Film/TheWindThatShakesTheBarley'' for good (well, evil) examples.
190%%* ''Film/TheIsland2005'':
191%%** [[spoiler:Tom Lincoln]], who turns out to be an evil Scot.
192%%** [[spoiler:Dr. Merrick]] played by [[spoiler:Creator/SeanBean]].
193* Creator/JackieChan: The Evil Brit is a common trope in his movies due to their anti-colonial themes, discussed in detail in [[http://archive.is/NSE2O here]].
194* ''Film/JamesBond'': Averted in all of the movies, despite their being produced by Americans and targeted in large part at American audiences. The heroes are always British members of Her Majesty's Secret Service, and the villains most often Continental Europeans, Asians, or even Americans. The exceptions are ''Film/GoldenEye'' and ''Film/TomorrowNeverDies''.
195* ''Film/JohnnyEnglishReborn'' (which is ironically part of a film series that primarily parodies the ''James Bond'' franchise) has Simon Ambrose, who, despite being a prolific agent of [=MI7=], also works for Vortex, an organization of suspicious assassins, in which he is one of their founding members.
196%%* ''Film/JumpingJackFlash'': Jeremy Talbot from the British Consulate in the film.
197* In ''Film/JupiterAscending'', the Abrasax family are [[AristocratsAreEvil thoroughly evil galactic aristocracy]] who make their phenomenal fortune processing entire planets of HumanResources for LongevityTreatment. While they have the accent, HumanityCameFromSpace in the setting, and they're all {{Time Abyss}}es who predate England by millennia.
198* ''Film/KingsmanTheSecretService'': Inverted and parodied, as the leading villains are American. The director's intention was to poke fun at this trope.
199* ''Film/{{Komodo}}'': There's Bracken, Oates's superior. He blackmails him into solving the komodo problem on the island. He orders Oates to kill the visitors and refuses to send a medical pickup when Oates demands one.
200* ''Film/{{Labyrinth}}'': Jareth, the seductive and manipulative Goblin King, played by Music/DavidBowie, who challenges the American heroine, Sarah.
201* ''Franchise/MarvelCinematicUniverse'':
202** Creator/TimRoth plays Emil Blonsky (in the comics, a Russian) in ''Film/{{The Incredible Hulk|2008}}''. Loosely {{hand wave}}d as saying the character was brought up in England.
203** Creator/TomHiddleston as Loki in ''Film/{{Thor}}'' and ''Film/ThorTheDarkWorld'', would be an aversion, since all Asgardians have British accents, up to and including Thor himself. However, the trope is played straight in ''Film/{{The Avengers|2012}}'', where most of the characters are American.
204* ''Film/{{Matilda}}'': [[SadistTeacher Agatha Trunchbull]], in which every other character is American.
205* This trope shows up in a lot of Creator/MelGibson films. All have been roundly criticized by historians for their wild inaccuracies, often involving playing up (or outright fabricating) British atrocities and general nastiness.
206** ''Film/{{Braveheart}}'' portrays the heroic struggle of the Scots against the evil English.
207** ''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.
208** In 1981's ''Film/{{Gallipoli}}'', the British soldiers are shown drinking tea on the beach while the Australians die in the battle. The Royal British Legion were extremely miffed by the portrayal of the British, 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:
209--->'''Hitchens''': [[StiffUpperLip Englishmen don't form picket lines outside movie theaters when "stereotyped," but still.]]
210* ''Film/{{Momentum|2015}}'': James Purefoy as Mr. Washington, a smooth-talking assassin who conducts business in an expensive suit and tie. And a British accent, naturally.
211* ''Film/TheMuppets2011'': Uncle Deadly. [[spoiler:[[SubvertedTrope Subverts]] this via DarkIsNotEvil after a HeelRealization and subsequent HeelFaceTurn.]]
212%%* ''Film/NationalTreasure'': Ian Howe (Creator/SeanBean) in the first movie.
213* ''[[Film/TheNet1995 The Net]]'': The debonair, dashing and very deadly Devlin, who seduces Creator/SandraBullock's character in a bid to steal a disk in her possession, and then sets about trying to kill her.
214* ''Film/TheOldGuard'': The villain of the film Stephen Merrick, an unscrupulous English-accented [=CEO=] of a large pharmaceutical company (played by Creator/HarryMelling), a greedy CorruptCorporateExecutive who displays a sadistic streak when he [[GoodThingYouCanHeal stabs and tortures the immortals to test their healing ability]].
215* ''Film/OnceUponASpy'': Although his nationality is never stated, EvilCripple Marcus Valorium has a British accent. Given he is played by Creator/ChristopherLee, his villainous credentials seem fairly well established. He also possesses a strong disdain for democracy.
216* ''Film/OurManFlint''. Malcolm Rodney is an important agent of the Galaxy organization. He constantly tries to undercut his boss Gila and repeatedly advises killing Derek Flint. He's portrayed as sleazy and completely untrustworthy.
217* ''Film/Passenger57'': Bruce Payne's airborne villain oozed evil from every icy English-accented word, starting with "Bloody."
218* '' Franchise/PlanetOfTheApes'':
219** In ''Film/RiseOfThePlanetOfTheApes'', while Jacobs (Creator/DavidOyelowo) is not the main villain outright, he is the closest thing we have to the BigBad and has a deeply British voice.
220** In ''Film/DawnOfThePlanetOfTheApes'', while very clearly trying to make Koba's voice sound animalistic, Creator/TobyKebbell's pronunciation of some of the words Koba says in English are British, albeit not obvious.
221* ''Franchise/PiratesOfTheCaribbean'':
222** 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 [[TheDragon Dragon]] Mercer is [[OopNorth Mancunian]].
223** Davy Jones in movies [[Film/PiratesOfTheCaribbeanDeadMansChest two]] and [[Film/PiratesOfTheCaribbeanAtWorldsEnd three]] was played by Creator/BillNighy. That said, he doesn't technically count, because Nighy portrayed Jones as [[ViolentGlaswegian Scottish]].
224** In ''Film/PiratesOfTheCaribbeanOnStrangerTides'', Blackbeard was played by Ian [=McShane=].
225* In ''Film/PiratesOfTheCaribbeanDeadMenTellNoTales'', Admiral Scarfield is an InsaneAdmiral who plans on harnessing the power of [[{{Macguffin}} the Trident of Poseidon]]. That said, he can't hold a candle to BigBad Armando Salazar, a BadassSpaniard, [[spoiler:and eventually Salazar unceremoniously kills him]].
226* ''Film/{{Revolution 1985}}'': Sergeant Major Peasy is British ([[FakeBrit though played by Canadian]] Creator/DonaldSutherland), and definitely a bad guy.
227* In ''Film/Rogue2020'', Zalaam, the leader of [[AfricanTerrorists the al-Shabaab cell]], has a working class British accent, although it is at least explained that he arrived from the UK and took control of the group, rather than it merely being an unexplained accent.
228* Rufus Sewell: Every character played by this man. ''Film/DarkCity'' was one of his few heroic roles, and that was as a FakeAmerican.
229* ''Film/{{RRR}}'': The huge Tollywood hit RRR has Ray Stevenson and Alison Doody lead a whole host of evil Brits, and in line with the rest of the film it is extremely over the top.
230* ''Film/{{Scoop}}'': Double subverted in this Creator/WoodyAllen film, where a charming high-society Brit, played by Creator/HughJackman, is suggested to be a murderer. However, he's so charming and so handsome that the reporter played by Scarlett Johansson finds this impossible [[spoiler:in the end, it is revealed that he was the murderer after all]].
231%%* Creator/SeanBean:
232%%** Most of his acting career revolves around him playing Evil Brits.
233* ''Film/TheSilenceOfTheLambs'': Hannibal Lecter as portrayed by both Scot Creator/BrianCox and Welshman Creator/AnthonyHopkins. The less said about the French kid and ''[[CanonDiscontinuity Hannibal Rising]]'', the better.
234* ''Film/SpiderMan2'': Deliberately an AvertedTrope, in which British actor Alfred Molina played Doctor Octopus as an American. Molina later joked about this in interviews:
235-->'''Molina:''' If we gave him a British accent, it's a bit like giving it away right from the start. It's a bit like, carrying a great big sign that goes "movie villain." And underneath that, "Creator/AlanRickman wasn't free".
236* ''Film/StarTrekIntoDarkness'': Creator/BenedictCumberbatch plays Brit villain John Harrison, whose first act is orchestrating a terrorist attack on London. The casting decision seems straightforwardly this trope until it's revealed that [[spoiler: Harrison is actually Khan Noonien Singh - a character with a Sikh name and therefore of south Asian origin, previously played by [[Creator/RicardoMontalban a Hispanic actor]].]]
237* ''Franchise/StarWars'':
238** Although that was more incidental since union rules for British films at the time required a minimum number of speaking parts for British actors, so a lot were cast as Imperial officers. [[note]]Part of it was Lucas objecting to being told he had to, and demonstrating his contempt for the policy[[/note]] Both the Imperials and Rebels were played by mostly British actors, but the Rebels' actors either faked American accents or were dubbed by Americans. A few sources claim that the upper-class English accent is the default accent on Coruscant; everyone listed below (except C-3PO) either grew up or spent large amounts of time living there.
239*** There ''is'' one aversion to this -- in ''Film/ANewHope'', [[SmugSnake Admiral Motti]] (the man who gets Force-choked by Vader) has a North American accent. The actor kept to the trope, however, as he was married to Sarah Douglas, who you'll find filed one entry down under ''Film/SupermanII''.
240** The late Creator/PeterCushing (Grand Moff Tarkin), who actually played mostly good guys in his career -- including Franchise/SherlockHolmes and a non-canonical incarnation of the Doctor in ''Film/DrWhoAndTheDaleks'' and ''Film/DaleksInvasionEarth2150AD''.
241*** In fact, all major bad guys from the George Lucas era were played by Brits: The Emperor (Creator/IanMcDiarmid is Scottish), Darth Vader (although not his voice actor, as the voice of Creator/DavidProwse was too west-country, earning him the nickname Darth Farmer), Count Dooku (Creator/ChristopherLee), and Darth Maul (London-based Scot Creator/RayPark's voice was dubbed by British voice-actor and comedian Creator/PeterSerafinowicz). Even Darth Vader's voice actor Creator/JamesEarlJones shifted his accent to a more Mid-Atlantic register.
242** A good number of good guys in ''Star Wars'' have British accents, however. Obi-Wan (Creator/AlecGuinness and Creator/EwanMcGregor), C-3PO (Creator/AnthonyDaniels), and Qui-Gon (Creator/LiamNeeson) and Mon Mothma, leader of the Rebel Alliance. In the first film, Princess Leia has a quasi-British accent [[OohMeAccentsSlipping in some scenes]]. The heroine of ''Film/TheForceAwakens'', Rey (Creator/DaisyRidley), also speaks with an English accent; as does Jyn Erso (Creator/FelicityJones) of ''Film/RogueOne''.
243** This trend is continued in the sequel trilogy. General Hux (played by Irishman Creator/DomhnallGleeson) has a British accent, while Resistance fighter Finn (played by Englishman Creator/JohnBoyega) has an American accent.
244** ''Film/{{Solo}}'' continues the trend, with murderous crime boss Dryden Vos played by Creator/PaulBettany.
245* ''Film/SupermanII'': Evil Kryptonian General Zod and his FemmeFatale hench-woman Ursa were portrayed by Brits Creator/TerenceStamp and Sarah Douglas.
246* Lord Oliver in ''Film/{{Timeline}}''. The British part is justified, since the time travelers end up in the middle of the Hundred Years War, although it seems like Oliver does everything ForTheEvulz. His NumberTwo, though, turns out to be a FakeBrit (in-universe). He's actually an American time traveler left behind by the CorruptCorporateExecutive in charge of the project (who's British too, by the way).
247* ''Film/TotalRecall2012'': ''Underworld'''s Creator/KateBeckinsale plays an Evil Brit in the remake, as Quaid's fake wife Lori. As "nice" Lori, Beckinsale uses an American accent but reverts to her natural British accent as "evil" Lori. Funny thing is, there's no reason for her to adopt an American accent, given that the only livable areas are a chunk of Europe and Australia.
248* ''Film/Underworld2003'':
249** Saw Creator/BillNighy as an Evil Brit vampire.
250*** Even though he's supposed to be Hungarian. Possibly a case of TranslationConvention. The only Brit (according to some non-canonical sources) is Kraven, who's supposed to be from Leicester. While this would qualify him for the trope, the actor (from Northern Ireland) adopts an ''American'' accent for the role.
251** The sequel has Marcus Corvinus, ''also'' a Hungarian, played by the Scottish actor Creator/TonyCurran with a British accent.
252* In the [[{{Deconstruction}} Deconstructive western]] ''Film/{{Unforgiven}}'', English Bob is set up as a badass, fearless gunslinger, and he does demonstrate some skill with a pistol by shooting a bird out of the air from a moving train, which is no small feat... but is ultimately revealed to be just a vicious DirtyCoward who is outright exaggerating about his past heroism (in reality he earned a living killing {{Chinese Laborer}}s in cold blood and [[spoiler:[[DisproportionateRetribution he murdered poor Two-Gun Corcoran in his sleep after he showed interest in a woman Bob liked]]]]). He undergoes a prolonged HumiliationConga at the hands of local [[RabidCop Rabid Sheriff]], [[LargeAndInCharge Little Bill Daggett]] and is then run out of Big Whiskey as a joke.
253* ''Film/XMenFilmSeries'':
254** While Magneto isn't British, being German Jewish by background (though in the comics he spent some of the post-war period working for a Western intelligence agency that might have been [=MI6=]) he is depicted by Creator/IanMcKellen with a classic resonant RP accent, one that Creator/MichaelFassbender tries to imitate with mixed success.
255** ''Film/XMen1'': Toad is British like his comic book counterpart.[[note]]In ''Film/XMenDaysOfFuturePast'', he was changed to an American.[[/note]]
256** ''Film/XMenTheLastStand'': The Juggernaut. He's American in the comics, but there was no attempt to alter Vinnie Jones' voice.
257** ''Film/{{Deadpool|2016}}'': Ajax has an English accent, and he's the first example of a British BigBad in the movie series. He's even credited as a [[LampshadeHanging "British Villain."]] His chief defining characteristics apart from his accent are a wealth of scientific knowledge, and lack of any form of pain, physical or emotional.
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261* In Creator/MichaelMoorcock's ''Hawkmoon'' stories, the villains are the [[EvilEmpire Dark Empire]] of Granbretan: An AlwaysChaoticEvil nation of Evil Brits in a [[FantasyCounterpartCulture fantastic version of Europe]].
262* In the Creator/AndrewVachss Burke book ''Strega'', Burke is forced to speak civilly to a self-proclaimed pedophile with a "semi-Brit" accent. Said pedophile becomes an occasionally recurring character. [[spoiler: At least until ''Dead and Gone'', where he turns out to be behind the plot to kill Burke, was actually faking the pedophile thing, and gets killed offscreen.]]
263%%* The point of Steve Grasse's ''Evil Empire''.
264* In ''Literature/The39Clues'' book series, the [[TheRival Kabras]] are the [[GreyandGrayMorality most evil]] of the main characters, especially [[EvilMatriarch the mother]], [[BigBad Isabel.]] The children, Ian [[BrotherSisterTeam and]] [[SpoiledBrat Natalie]] are more mean than evit, when compared to her, especially when considering that they are only as ruthless as they are because that was [[WellDoneSonGuy how they were raised]] and [[FollowInMyFootsteps how their mother expects them to act.]]
265* In ''Literature/TheDresdenFiles'', more than a few of the villains have British accents. This, however, is justified by the fact that a lot of the old monsters come from the Old World and the headquarters of the White Council is in Edinburgh, suggesting that Britain is an unusually magical place. Also, there's the fact that Britain, until comparatively recently, ruled the largest empire the world has ever seen, suggesting that an upper-class British accent (which is still considered a marker of wealth and power) might have been adopted as more convenient.
266** The stand out is probably Nicodemus, who is specifically noted as sounding British and plays this trope to the hilt, with all the expected associations of WickedCultured, AffablyEvil (verging on FauxAffablyEvil at times) and even indulging in [[BritsLoveTea a spot of tea]] once.
267** Binder is a subversion in that he isn't particularly cultured (coming off more as a NouveauRiche LondonGangster than anything else), nor particularly evil; he is a ConsummateProfessional whom, more often than not, gets hired by the bad guys, but he is strictly in it for the money and calls his employers out on excessive cruelty and needless collateral damage more than once.
268* The ''Literature/InDeath'' series: A number of the murderers turn out to be British. Then again, as the author Creator/NoraRoberts is American and of Irish descent, she will happily make use of this trope.
269* ''Literature/TheDayOfTheJackal''. The Jackal is British and an urbane ProfessionalKiller. [[spoiler:Or is he? At the end of the novel, Her Majesty's Government point out there's no proof, given his multiple identities, that he was ever British in the first place.]]
270* Leonard Cunningham from ''Literature/InCryptid'' is the heir apparent to [[KnightTemplar the Covenant]] [[MonsterHunterOrganization of St.]] [[VanHelsingHateCrimes George]]. He's usually pretty AffablyEvil, and is one of the nobler villains in the series, [[EnemyMine teaming up]] with Antimony to [[spoiler:destroy the [[EldritchAbomination Crossroads]]]], but he's still a FantasticRacist whose goal is to exterminate any species he deems "monsters", sapient or not.
271* ''Literature/JaineAustenMysteries'': [[spoiler:Spencer Dalworth VII]], the killer from ''Death of a Bachelorette''.
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278* American TV seems to love this trope in its presenters of reality shows where ruthless people have to sort the wheat from the chaff quickly and efficiently. [[CausticCritic Simon Cowell]], for instance. Creator/GordonRamsay's no-nonsense approach to failing hotels and eateries made him a household name. ''Series/KitchenNightmares'' spawned a knock-off, ''Series/RestaurantImpossible'', presented by Robert Irvine: a British chef/entrepreneur who comes across as colder, nastier and more ruthless despite not losing his temper and never swearing ''once''. You would not want to cross him or disobey.
279* ''Creator/{{BBC}} America'' 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 (''Film/DieHardWithAVengeance'' with Creator/JeremyIrons, ''Film/RobinHoodPrinceOfThieves'' with Creator/AlanRickman, ''Film/StarTrekGenerations'' with Creator/MalcolmMcDowell and ''Film/SupermanII'' with Terence Stamp).
280* In the fifth season of ''Series/TwentyFour'', Chechen terrorist Vladimir Bierko has a cultured, James Bond villain-style British accent (he's played by British actor Julian Sands).
281** Season 3 gives us former British Special Forces operative Stephen Saunders.
282* ''Series/{{Alias}}''
283** Julian Sark had a mostly British accent. The character was actually Russian-born, educated in the UK, and who had spent a lot of time in Ireland. In-universe, his accent was described as Irish-influenced British. The actor is actually American who faked a passable British accent.
284** Lauren Reed was American-born but raised mostly in the UK. This enabled her to be a US NSA operative and the daughter of a US senator while having a "British" accent. The actress is actually Australian.
285* The ''Series/AngieTribeca'' episode "Inside Man" features a British gang that robs banks by pretending to be chimney-sweepers, each with a heavy Cockney accent and wealth of British slang. One of them speaks so indistinguishably that a detective stuffs bubble gum in his own mouth in order to emulate his accent. The thug then spits out his own gum and speaks clearly.
286* ''Series/{{Arrow}}'' has two examples.
287** [[AdaptationalVillainy Edward Fyers]] is the head of a mercenary company that opposes Oliver and his allies on the island. While OnlyInItForTheMoney, he's also a SociopathicSoldier that [[FauxAffablyEvil hides his cruelty behind a facade of politeness]], as well as an RP English accent.
288** The Dodger is a con man that straps bombs to hostages, all with a stiff British accent.
289* A few of the Downbelow gang leaders in ''Series/BabylonFive'' have thick British accents and stood out as particularly nasty customers.
290** Then there was the episode [[Recap/BabylonFiveS02E21ComesTheInquisitor "Comes the Inquisitor"]], where the title role was played by an American affecting an accent that apparently could even fool genuine Brits. Justified as the character in question was Jack the Ripper -- what else would he be but British?
291* An episode of the original ''Series/{{Battlestar Galactica|1978}}'' in which a bunch of boys living in a forest were cute tow-headed American boys until they defied Starbuck and Apollo and became evil British boys! Then, when they had learned their lesson and were forgiven, they turned back into cute adorable American boys again (the fact that the mute sisters who lived with them had no purpose other than housework (forest work?) isn't better...).
292** Patrick Mcnee was the voice of the Cylons' Imperious Leader and also the villainous Count Iblis (which was noticed by Baltar and indicated that Iblis, who is essentially the series's version of {{Satan}}, had influenced the Cylons).
293* Gaius Baltar from the re-imagined series of ''Series/{{Battlestar Galactica|2003}}'' is played by James Callis, who is British. Most of the cast speak in American or Canadian accents -- even Creator/JamieBamber (Apollo), who is also British, puts on an American accent for the show. This can lead to surprise on the part of the fans when he uses his normal accent for interviews...
294** Lampshaded when James Callis put on a Yorkshire accent to demonstrate his poverty-stricken origins on Aerelon.
295** Which is weird for two reasons: 1. His 'fake' Caprican accent sounds like none of the other (North American) Capricans. 2. His 'posh' accent sounds more like Estuary English i.e. it sometimes sounds 'posh' but sometimes sounds slightly 'Cockney'.
296** Ironically enough, Creator/JamieBamber's RealLife wife (who is ''also'' British) plays one of the doctors assisting Cottle in Galactica's medical bay but uses her original British accent. The show has used actresses from New Zealand (Lucy Lawless) and Australia (Stephanie Jacobsen) who also use their native accents.
297*** Since ''Series/{{Caprica}}'' started, things have gotten a bit murkier since Clarice Willow speaks with Polly Walker's native English accent (not terribly different from Callis's, although Walker is from Cheshire). At first, this lent credibility to the theory that the planet Caprica has lots of different accents--and then, we discover that Clarice was born on Sagittaron--and none of the Sagittarons on ''BSG'' spoke with British accents either.
298** Creator/JamieBamber is actually half American, though it is true that he grew up in Britain.
299** According to the commentary on the movie ''[[Recap/BattlestarGalactica2003Razor Razor]]'', everyone got to use their real accent for the most part to imply variety in the Colonies. The only reason Bamber didn't use his British accent was to make him sound like Commander Adama to imply their familial relationship, which they needed all the help they could get on, considering the actors were different ethnicities (Olmos being an emphatically-brown Mexican and Bamber being as white as they come; Bamber also dyed his naturally sandy hair dark brown and Olmos wore blue contact lenses to return the favor, covering his brown eyes).
300* ''Series/BladeTheSeries'' has the series BigBad, Marcus van Sciver being originally from London but having lived in Detroit for over a hundred years. Despite this, he still has a clear British accent. This could be deliberate on his part, as a number of much older vampires including the Purebloods he despises (e.g., Overlord Rusk) have adopted American accents.
301** Neil Jackson, playing van Sciver, proceeds to play a one-shot villain in ''Series/StargateSG1'' using the same accent.
302* Spike from ''Series/BuffyTheVampireSlayer'', of the "[[LowerClassLout working-class thug]]" type, before the HeelFaceTurn and BadassDecay.
303** Other examples include Drusilla, Gwendolyn Post, and other Watchers. Averted with Giles, until he becomes an anti-hero in "The Gift".
304** Neither Spike nor Drusilla are actually played by Britons, despite having [[FakeBrit very convincing accents]].
305* Gilroy from ''Series/BurnNotice'' is the "evil limey mastermind" for most of the second half of season three. He's also rather... ''[[HoYay friendly]]'' with his partners in crime.
306* ''Series/TheCape'' has two characters named Peter Fleming AKA Chess and Scales. Peter Fleming speaks English with a posh British accent. Scales speaks English with a Cockney accent. Peter Fleming is the evil BigBad of the show. Scales is the thuggish evil TheDragon (possibly graduating to another BigBad) of the show.
307* ''Series/{{Charmed|1998}}'': Whenever Piper and Leo's baby son Wyatt is turned evil by something, his future adult self's accent [[UnexplainedAccent inexplicably]] changes from American to British.
308* A recurring villain for a season of ''Series/{{Chuck}}'' is a Russian criminal mastermind named Alexei Volkoff, played by Creator/TimothyDalton with a British accent. Later turns out to be justified [[spoiler:as Volkoff is actually a British guy brainwashed to think that he's a Russian criminal mastermind]]. Later on, his mantle as the BigBad and the Evil Brit is taken by [[spoiler:his daughter]].
309* Though it's hard to judge 'evil' in a show as all over the place as ''Series/{{Community}}'', one of the few characters to cross the MoralEventHorizon is apathetic, alcoholic English psychologist Ian Duncan.
310** Season 4 introduces Toby, a horrible manipulator and intended kidnapper, and Professor Cornwallis, who sinisterly toys with the study group and is infamously inappropriate to young women.
311** The Evil Brit streak is broken in Season 5 by [[spoiler:Magnitude]].
312* ''Series/DeadRingers'' parodied this with a sketch where Creator/ArnoldSchwarzenegger needs a "Token British Bad Guy" to be the villain of his new action movie, causing both Creator/AlanRickman and Creator/IanMcKellen to show up for the role and getting into a fight over it. The eventual winner was [[spoiler:Creator/{{BRIAN BLESSED}}.]]
313** A subsequent iteration of the sketch had Rickman and [=McKellen=] (still in their action movie villain personas) competing to be the [[AristocratsAreEvil Evil Aristocrat]] in a Jane Austen-style romance.
314* Lila in season 2 of ''Series/{{Dexter}}''. She's obsessed with the title character, gets a colleague of him [[FalseRapeAccusation falsely accused of rape]], and tries to [[spoiler:kill both Dexter and his two stepchildren in a fire.]] The final episode of the season, in which she is the main villain, is even called "The British Invasion".
315* Lady Cassandra from ''Series/DoctorWho'' has many of these traits, complete with a xenophobic disdain for everyone and a Posh accent being played by Zoe Wanamaker no less. This is made even more explicit in her second appearance in "New Earth" in which she possesses Rose because she thinks she fits her eugenicist views as part of her revenge plot, being portrayed in a more straightforward fashion as a white supremacist. She does this to force Rose into becoming the thing she claimed to hate the most in Cassandra; an [[SocialDarwinist elitist supremacist villainess.]]
316%%* ''{{Series/Dollhouse}}'':
317%%** This show gives us Adelle [=DeWitt=], who isn't technically a villain but is at best morally suspect.
318%%** Creator/JamieBamber's character in Episode 2.01 "Vows".
319* Baron Harkonnen from the ''Series/{{Dune}}'' miniseries was given a distinctly British accent, and in fact is actually portrayed by a British actor. Also a bit odd, considering the fact that a Russian accent/Russian actor might have made logically more sense given the fact that his first name is "Vladimir". And the last name, Harkonnen, is (if anything) ''Finnish''. And they're [[TranslationConvention not even supposed to be speaking English]], that language is supposed to have been dead for over 10,000 years.
320%%* [[RichBitch Alexis Carrington]] on ''Series/Dynasty1981''
321%%** Joan Collins would later go on to play an {{Expy}} of this character on ''Series/WillAndGrace''.
322* In ''Series/{{Elementary}}'', Sherlock's love interest Irene Adler is an American, as she was in Doyle's original story. When she [[spoiler:turns out to be the evil Moriarty, she also turns out to be British.]]
323* Crichton seemingly draws inspiration from this trope in ''Series/{{Farscape}}'' when he has to imitate a Peacekeeper, while the series adopts it wholeheartedly with the character of Scorpius.
324** Scorpius sounds more posh/cultured Australian than British to British audiences. Clearly, Wayne Pygram is doing a "villain" voice, but it's not a British accent by any means.
325** Presumably the reason Crichton uses that (atrociously bad) British accent is that most of the Peacekeepers use British accents, though most are played by Australians (as is everyone that's not John Crichton).
326** It's also possible that as a PopCulturedBadass, movies have taught Crichton to equate villains with British accents as ''always'' being [[EvilIsHammy ridiculously hammy]]! This definitely would explain with the sheer gusto in which he goes into full LargeHam mode whenever he impersonates a Peacekeeper!
327* Suspect and double-crossing "businessman" Badger of ''Series/{{Firefly}}'' is this, being essentially your typical LondonGangster -- [[JustForFun/RecycledInSpace in SPACE!]]
328* In ''Series/FlashForward2009'', Simon is in charge of the secret project that led to the blackout, played by [[Series/{{Lost}} Dominic]] [[Film/TheLordOfTheRings Monaghan]].
329%%* Recurring villains David Robert Jones and Thomas Jerome Newton from ''Series/{{Fringe}}''.
330%%** Would you believe that the actor playing Newton is French?
331%%** Also, Jared Harris (playing Jones) would later go on to play Professor Moriarty in ''Film/SherlockHolmesAGameOfShadows''.
332* ''Series/{{Heroes}}'':
333** Adam Monroe (an immortal conman who made his start in 17th-century Japan) and Daniel Linderman (an AffablyEvil, twinkly-eyed mob boss). Though Adam is actually played by an [[FakeBrit American]]. Linderman seems particularly blatant: his whole backstory and position are completely rooted in the US, but he's gotta be British, cuz he's big-time super-evil.
334** More recently Edgar (sort of, he's not quite ''evil'' as much as misguided, and has doubts in regards to Samuel's plans) and Samuel too, although Samuel's accent changes constantly, sometimes within the same episode or even the same scene.
335** Samuel is American (born in Arizona) but his accent is used to show how well-travelled he is and all the different places he has been in.
336* In the British miniseries ''{{Series/Jekyll}}'' the trope is inverted by having the boss-level baddies represented by Americans (albeit using British actors with poor accents).
337* ''Series/LegendOfTheSeeker'': The series seems to [[InvokedTrope invoke]] this with having Darken Rahl speak in a high-class English accent (while of course he's not actually British, nor is his actor, the New Zealander Craig Parker).
338** This accent is not duplicated by other characters playing D'Harans, except for John Rhys-Davies (Welsh) playing his father Panis Rahl in disguise.
339* Charles Widmore on ''Series/{{Lost}}'' (the actor's from New Zealand, but the character seems to be British). After he was given the villain role in season 4, things have become a whole lot more morally ambiguous...''Lost'', however, also has several Brits among the heroes (Charlie, Charlotte, Penny, Desmond, maybe Naomi).
340* Vex is definitely the evilest character seen so far on ''Series/LostGirl'' and yep, he has a British accent.
341* Dr. Zachary Smith on ''Series/LostInSpace'' was never specifically said to be British, but he most definitely fits the "vaguely upper-class" stereotype with his pompous personality, refined way of speaking, and haughty manner.
342* ''Series/MajorCrimes''. Creator/JamieBamber's character during a guest role in the episode "Open Line" playing an uber-sleazy photographer who was such a {{Jerkass}} (among other things, he witnessed the murder being investigated but didn't call the cops as it would have revealed that he'd been spying on the victim) that the team was actually disappointed that he was technically innocent of the crime in question, but thrilled when they nailed him for manslaughter for setting things in motion.
343* Franchise/MarvelCinematicUniverse:
344** ''Series/Daredevil2015'': In season 3, Wilson Fisk's replacement for James Wesley is Felix Manning (Joe Jones), a British fixer whom Fisk tasks with strongarming and threatening people, and also serves as Dex's handler.
345** ''Series/JessicaJones2015'': Creator/DavidTennant uses the Estuary English accent he used as the Tenth Doctor to portray Kilgrave.
346** ''Series/TheDefenders2017'': Creator/ElodieYung puts on a posh British accent when playing Elektra, who turns evil after being revived by the Hand.
347* ''Series/MonarchLegacyOfMonsters'': [[Characters/MonsterVerseApexCybernetics Brenda Holland]] has the American stereotype for a "wealthy and snobbish" upper-class British accent, and she's a BitchInSheepsClothing who manipulated May into unwittingly feeding her research into cruel experiments on animals, as well as being the reason why May had to go on the run after she found out the truth and committed cyberterrorism against Holland's company in retribution.
348* ''Series/OnceUponATime'': Mr. Gold, Rumplestiltskin's human Storybrooke counterpart, keeps Robert Carlyle's Scottish accent. There are a few other British-accented villains as well, but they're usually from works actually set or created in Britain; of course [[WesternAnimation/OneHundredAndOneDalmatians Cruella de Vil]] or [[Literature/TheStrangeCaseOfDrJekyllAndMrHyde Mister Hyde]] is going to be British. ([[Film/TheWizardOfOz The Wicked Witch of the West]] also having a British accent, though, makes [[UnexplainedAccent less sense]], especially as nobody else from Oz even within the series does.)
349* ''Series/RavensHome'': Chelsea's ex-husband Garrett is a cheating GoldDigger from Britain.
350* Inverted by BBC ''Series/{{Sherlock}}'''s Dubliner Moriarty. Justified in that the name "Moriarty" actually is of Irish origin[[note]]His sidekick in the books is named "Moran", another Irish surname, which makes you wonder if Conan Doyle was indulging in some national stereotyping of his own...[[/note]].
351* ''Series/{{Sisters}}''. Georgie's psychologist, who convinced her that she had been molested by her father, convinced her to turn her back on her disbelieving family, then convinced her that they needed to have sex to help her get over her newfound sexual fears, was of course, British (as was his actor, who presumably either couldn't or wouldn't do an American accent.)
352* Major Zod on ''Series/{{Smallville}}'' has a heavy British accent. It actually makes him difficult to understand on occasion. (Unless you're British.)
353* ''Series/{{Stargirl|2020}}'': Zigzagged with Richard Swift (AKA The Shade), who speaks with a refined British accent and is played by Creator/JonathanCake. He's initially assumed to be evil, only to turn out to be trying to stop someone [[EvenEvilHasStandards even worse]]. He even admits that he may be a bad guy, but he's a far cry from true evil. In fact, [[spoiler:while the pilot episode shows the Shade dragging off Dr. Mid-Nite, seeming to his death, in fact, the Shade was trying to protect him and accidentally ended up trapping him in the shadow world]].
354* ''Series/StarTrekTheNextGeneration'':
355** In one episode, Moriarty from the ''Franchise/SherlockHolmes'' stories comes back in holographic form to menace the crew. However, he was played by an American actor who miraculously affected a stunningly believable British accent (Creator/DanielDavis later used the same flawless British accent in ''Series/TheNanny''). [[JustifiedTrope Justified]] in this case by the fact that, well, it's Moriarty from the Sherlock Holmes stories -- what else would he be ''but'' British? {{Downplayed}} when it becomes apparent that this Moriarty is really [[spoiler:not all that evil or ruthless, with his main motivation being simply the right to exist.]]
356** Creator/DavidWarner plays an unashamedly evil Cardassian who had no qualms about torturing (physically and mentally) Captain Picard.
357** Patrick Stewart's usually warm English tones gave Locutus an extra edge of menace when he was assimilated into the Borg collective during "The Best of Both Worlds".
358** Averted by Picard himself though.
359* ''Series/StarTrekPicard'': Romulan siblings and Zhat Vash operatives Narek and Narissa have a British accent when they speak in English, and it's an indicator to the audience that they're the villains.
360* Crowley, crossroads demon and eventual King of Hell, in ''Series/{{Supernatural}}''. It turns out that he was Scottish while human, so maybe the English accent is due to the body he's possessing or something he picked up over centuries.
361** Season 12 featured an entire organization of Evil Brits in the British Men of Letters, an intelligence group that [[NotSoWellIntentionedExtremist will do anything to maintain order.]]
362* ''Series/SupermanAndLois'': Morgan Edge has a refined British accent (which Lois once offhandedly suggests is fake, possibly as a nod to the fact that the pre-Crisis Edge was American) and presents himself as a business tycoon trying to help a small town when in reality his plans are a lot more sinister. [[spoiler:It turns out that he's not British at all. Not even human. He's Superman's older half-brother Tal-Rho from their mother's first marriage. His accent comes from the fact that his pod landed in Britain, where he was captured and tortured for a few years, picking up the accent from them.]]
363%%* ''Series/TeenWolf'' season three brings us Deucalion, the leader of the Alpha Pack.
364%%* Klaus on ''Series/TheVampireDiaries'', even though he's supposed to be Scandinavian.
365* ''Series/WalkerTexasRanger'':
366** The main villain of Season 6's "[[Recap/WalkerTexasRangerS6E17InGodsHands In God's Hands]]", Kroeger, appears to speak in a heavy British or Irish accent. While he and his gang were pursued by Walker and Trivette during an armed robbery, engaging the latter Ranger in a shootout, he was responsible for [[spoiler:firing the bullet that injured 6-year-old [=Danny McGee=], which Trivette [[TurnInYourBadge took the rap for, causing him to be placed on administrative leave,]] until Walker proved what really happened.]]
367** Victor Drake in Season 9's "[[Recap/WalkerTexasRangerS9E21BloodDiamonds Blood Diamonds]]" was born in Liverpool in 1963, right at the same time Music/TheBeatles hit it big and speaks in a heavy British accent. Drake is an arms dealer whose background includes smuggling chemicals to Iraq to make nerve gas and now sitting on the Top 10 of the FBI's most wanted list. He was trying to sell weapons to a rebel group in Sierra Leone, and caught on to Walker and Trivette's cover when the latter Ranger assumed the identity of a deceased diamond smuggler (who was later revealed to be [[ContaminationSituation a carrier of]] [[PlagueEpisode a deadly Ebola virus]]) to trick him into a trap, leading up to [[spoiler:both Rangers being killed, but it was nothing more but a [[AllJustADream bad]] [[NightmareSequence dream]] Alex was having, until [[OrWasItADream Walker reveals he was about to undertake the investigation from that dream]].]]
368* ''Series/{{Warehouse 13}}'''s {{Big Bad}}s so far have been the non-specifically British [=MacPherson=] of season 1 (Scottish name, Welsh actor, RP accent), the English [[spoiler:and female]] HG Wells of season 2 and Charlotte [=DuPrix=] of season 4. There has also been, Benedict Valda [[spoiler:though it turned out it was just in Pete's head]] and Alice Liddell. When HG's mind was rewritten, so she could have a chance at a normal life, she gained an American accent. There's also Paracelsus, who is supposed to be Swiss but is played by Creator/AnthonyHead with a British accent.
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372* Thomas Dolby's track "The Devil Is an Englishman", from the soundtrack of the Ken Russell film ''Gothic''.
373* Many Irish rebel songs (of course!)
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377* Wrestling/WilliamRegal sticks out from other British Pro wrestlers as even when the [[{{face}} fans take his side]], he refuses to let anyone refer to him as anything but a "Dirty rotten scoundrel ''with hate in his heart!''"
378** Even Regal became the lackey or TheDragon for one of the most glorious monarchs to reign in the squared circle: King Bookah (Wrestling/BookerT)! He comes complete with [[RichBitch a Queen]], [[{{Oireland}} a fighting Irishman]], and a nice parodic [[UsefulNotes/BritishAccents fake accent]]. Booker's not British...
379* Dave Taylor, who has as much in-ring talent as Regal but a bare fraction of the charisma, plays the same gimmick.
380** Regal and Taylor formed a stable in WCW called the Bluebloods. They had a manager named Jeeves and were joined by [[strike:Bobby Eaton]] Earl Robert Eaton and Doc Dean at various points. Eaton was more famous as half of Wrestling/TheMidnightExpress and part of The Dangerous Alliance, and Dean was used as a jobber before and after his affiliation with them.
381* WCW's Wrestling/NormanSmiley, a black Englishman. After several years as a jobber, he broke out as a heel with a great deal of pride in his national heritage and catch wrestling skills.
382* Sha Samuels, a UK-based indy wrestler, uses the hooligan version of this trope as his gimmick. He's also very fond of [[TrademarkFavoriteFood meat pies]].
383%%* Wrestling/WadeBarrett, who was the leader of [[Wrestling/TheNexus the Nexus]] and, later, the Corre.
384* For that matter, Scotsman Drew [=McIntyre=], especially in the first half of 2010. He's never really been a good guy, but around that time, he threw temper tantrums over all his losses, would whine to the boss to get the losses revoked, would throw his weight around because he was apparently "The Chosen One", and went "officially" undefeated for six months.
385* In classical old-time British wrestling (the sort of spit-and-sawdust stuff that up until the 1980s was shown on ITV just before the football results), the principal villains were not British: Giant Haystacks was an Irish traveller, and Kendo Nagasaki's persona was as a mysterious Japanese determined to gain revenge for UsefulNotes/WW2. In keeping with the ethics of the 1970s. two other real villains were the Calypso Boys - West Indians whose dirty tricks aroused such racist sentiments that ITV demanded they not appear on TV - the reaction they provoked was too extreme even for a TV station happy to give us ''Series/LoveThyNeighbour'' as an acceptable sitcom.
386* Katie Lea Burchill (known as Winter while she worked for TNA) is almost universally a heel no matter what company she's working for.
387* "Sweet" Saraya Knight has admitted that when she steps on foreign soil, it's mostly to "play", and Saraya's idea of playing is pulverizing throats, kidneys, scalps, hair, and [[GroinAttack anyone foolish enough to not wear a cup]]. Despite this, [[Wrestling/{{Paige}} Britani Knight]] insisted the crowd of Wrestling/{{SHIMMER}} were only against her and Saraya because of "prejudice". Never mind that even though there were in Chicago (USA) one of their opponents was Portuguese and they were initially welcoming till the Knights produced a knuckleduster. ''Paige'' has mostly avoided this on WWE television, however.
388* Even by Wrestling/ProgressWrestling standards, "The Villain" Wrestling/MartyScurll elevates this trope to [[EvilIsHammy gloriously hammy heights]]. Scurll has gotten so popular he's even carried over his act to Wrestling/RingOfHonor and Wrestling/NewJapanProWrestling.
389* [[Wrestling/AdrianNeville Neville]], after his 2016 return at Roadblock: End of the Line, became this upon claiming that the fans only cheered for him because he was "too small or vulnerable". Come 2017, he would later proclaim himself as the "King of the Cruiserweights" and stated that ''205 Live'' is not ''205 Live'' without him.
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393* ''Radio/TheGoonShow'' featured the ''entente cordiale'' of Evil Brit Hercules Grytpype-Thynne (whose voice was based on George Sanders) and Evil Frenchman Count Jim Moriarty as villains in most episodes. Other characters also could fit the pattern, especially Major Dennis Bloodnok, but sometimes even Wallace Greenslade, the announcer.
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397* In ''Roleplay/DawnOfANewAgeOldportBlues'', Simon is a British-born lad living in America, who occasionally slips back into his native accent. He doesn't fit the trope, being a jerk at worst, but his evil alternate personality, the Dark Dragon, is a thoroughly vile villain with a Cockney accent that's much thicker than the one that Simon has.
398%%* Maxwell Lombardi from V4 of ''Roleplay/SurvivalOfTheFittest'' is fast becoming one of these after killing [[spoiler:Augustus [=MacDougal=], Harold Fisher]] and [[spoiler:Vera Osborne]]. And he's only doubled his body count since. Without provocation.
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402* Colin Quinn's ''Long Story Short'' has the description and the AnthropomorphicPersonification of England which fits this trope to a tee.
403-->"The British Empire at its peak controls one-quarter of the world's population and landmass. This, by the way, is a small goddamn country. So how did they do it? It wasn't military might, it was ''contempt''."
404* {{Discussed|Trope}} by Creator/EddieIzzard, wherein he notes American enemies tend to play the movie villains; as a result of the [[UsefulNotes/TheAmericanRevolution revolutionary war]], the Death Star from ''Franchise/StarWars'' is thus filled with British people.
405-->'''Izzard''': The Death Star? Just full of British actors opening doors and going ''"Oh, I'm-- oh." "What is it, Lieutenant Sebastian?" "It's just the Rebels, sir. They're here." "My God, man! Do they want tea?"''
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409* ''{{Theatre/Hamilton}}'' plays it straight and possibly parodies it with King George III, who gets a ridiculous {{evil laugh}} and is the only principle whose songs are structured like Beatles-esque Britpop. However, the American-born enemies Hamilton makes in Act II, particularly Thomas Jefferson and James Madison, are aversions.
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413* ''Franchise/{{Transformers}}'' franchise:
414** Megatron in both ''Film/Transformers2007'' and ''WesternAnimation/TransformersAnimated'' has a vaguely British accent.
415** Every Megatron played by Creator/DavidKaye (''WesternAnimation/BeastWars'', ''WesternAnimation/BeastMachines'', ''Armada'', ''Energon'' and ''Cybertron'') all have an accent that oozes danger, brilliance and magnificent bastardy of an order barely conceivable. Guess what nation of the planet Earth it is eerily familiar to...
416** ''WesternAnimation/BeastMachines'' also has [[NonActionGuy the Diagnostic Drone]], [[FutureCopter Obsidian]] and [[BrawnHilda Strika]] affect this particular accent.
417** Also, in [[WesternAnimation/TheTransformers the original cartoon]] Shockwave had a Creator/DavidWarner-inspired British accent. His ''Animated'' equivalent (who has the same VA) retains this and [[spoiler:his Autobot double-agent identity of Longarm has an American accent.]]
418** Predaking from ''WesternAnimation/TransformersPrime'' has an English-Ghanaian accent when he starts to talk, courtesy of voice actor Creator/PeterMensah. He's actually one of Megatron's most noble subordinates, but definitely not someone to provoke.
419** In ''ComicBook/TheTransformersIDW'', MadScientist Brainstorm is written with a British accent and mannerisms by ''ComicBook/TheTransformersMoreThanMeetsTheEye'' author James Roberts (himself British): he uses phrases like "silly old sod" and "taking the piss", and at one point some confusion arises because "MARB" (Mobile Autobot Repair Bay) and "MAAB" (Mobile Anti-Assault Battlesuit) sound the same when he says them. He's an Autobot, but [[HeroicComedicSociopath one of the most ethically murky]], with a career that went from "aiding sinister government brainwashing conspiracy" to "building over-the-top superweapons to {{Troll}} the ethics committee at Kimia" [[spoiler:while also being a Decepticon double agent, although a sympathetic one who tried to avoid giving away anything actually harmful and was mostly dealing with them to get the resources he needed for his main project]].
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423* Subverted in ''VideoGame/TheSaboteur''. Sean certainly doesn't ''like'' Bishop, since Sean is strongly hinted to be an Irish Nationalist. Bishop himself is most definitely secretive and dodgy and doesn't give the player too much reason to trust him. But in the end, he and the SOE are the most solid and powerful allies you have once [[spoiler: Santos sells you and LaResistance out to the Nazis and things go to hell in a rocket-powered handbasket.]]
424* 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 sexy 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.
425* In the RTS ''RUSE'', Nazi General von Richter talks with a British accent, with only the mildest hint of German influence, although his aide-de-camp talks in English with a thick, almost comical, German accent. It is subverted though, as Colonel Campbell is actually British (with an appropriate dialect), and on the goodie's side.
426* Archibald Grims from ''VideoGame/SuperRobotWarsOriginalGeneration'' is a particularly AxCrazy WickedCultured version of this. One of his ancestors in a side manga was this as well.
427* ''VideoGame/MetalGear'':
428** 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.
429** ''VideoGame/MetalGearSolid4GunsOfThePatriots'' 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:1970s]] onward, he fits.
430** 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.
431** The opening chapter of ''4'' sees you going up against a whole army of them - Praying Mantis. [[NotEvenBotheringWithTheAccent Not that you're likely to know they're at all British]].
432** According to the Japanese MSX manual for ''VideoGame/MetalGear1'', Machinegun Kid, one of the Outer Heaven mercenaries that fought Solid Snake, was formerly a member of the British SAS.
433** Strangelove from ''[[VideoGame/MetalGearSolidPeaceWalker Peace Walker]]'' is a subversion. Although she does serve the villainous team, the Peace Sentinels, [[HeelFaceTurn at first]], she herself is not exactly evil, as she simply has her own reasons for serving them (which is reviving The Boss), and makes it entirely clear that she does not actually care for Coldman's goals in regards to Peace Walker.
434* In grand ''Franchise/StarWars'' tradition, in ''VideoGame/KnightsOfTheOldRepublic'' many Sith have British accents (including coincidentally, a Sith lawyer who sounds [[Creator/CamClarke exactly like Liquid Snake]]). Averted with Bastila though, who is both a Jedi and an ally to the PlayerCharacter. [[spoiler:Although it becomes more pronounced when she [[FaceHeelTurn falls to the dark side]], wherein she starts to sound [[Creator/JenniferHale almost exactly like Naomi]].]]
435** In ''Empire at War'', every Imperial soldier who has a ground vehicle, or space troops other than Broadside pilots, is above the rank of grunt who flies a TIE fighter has a British accent.
436** In ''Rebel Strike'', most of the Rebels have American accents. The only exception is Sarkli. Would anyone like to guess which of the Rebels [[spoiler:leaves the Alliance for the Empire and becomes the final boss]]?
437** ''[[VideoGame/StarWarsBattlefront Battlefront II]]'' almost lampshades this. As well as the commanders of Star Destroyers being typically well-spoken, one of the characters (played by an American voice actor) is listed in the credits as, 'Smarmy British Palpatine Ally'.
438** Apparently the upper-class English accent is actually a ''[[TheEmpire Sith Empire]]'' accent as of ''VideoGame/StarWarsTheOldRepublic'', acknowledged to such an extent that an undercover Imperial Agent is told early on to 'drop the accent' in the duration of his/her mission. The Empire also has characters with Welsh, Scottish, and Irish accents. Apparently, the Sith Empire is the UK.
439* Helga, the authoritarian leader/dominatrix of the New Order Nation in ''VideoGame/RevolutionX''. As part of some reverse-psychology campaign, she barks out rhetoric in a cockney accent while dressing like a hooligan herself, despite calling for the ban of all rock music in general and Music/{{Aerosmith}} in particular. The ending reveals her to be [[spoiler:an alien in a biker jacket]], which makes even less sense. Played by Kerri Hoskins of ''Franchise/MortalKombat'' fame, complete with a black wig and bad accent.
440%%* In the Japanese ''VideoGame/TalesOfVesperia'' Jeager has a British accent.
441%%* [[PunnyName N. Tropy]] from the ''VideoGame/CrashBandicoot'' series. The series is fond of characters with non-American accents.
442* ''Franchise/TombRaider'':
443** Inverted in ''VideoGame/TombRaiderI'', ye olde 1996 entry that started it all. Lara Croft is our heroine, a sophisticated British [[GentlemanSnarker Gentlewoman Snarker]], facing off against Jacqueline Natla and her mercenary henchman Larson Conway - who are loud and brash Texans. The other baddie is an annoying Frenchman CowardlyBoss.
444** [[DesignatedHero Possibly]] downplayed for [[AntiHero Lara herself]], given some of the criticisms of the later [=PS1=]-era titles which came to a head in ''VideoGame/TombRaiderTheAngelOfDarkness''. On top of killing monsters and criminals, Lara also wreaked havoc on the local wildlife and [[NotHelpingYourCase killed policemen and security guards while in the process of trying to clear her name for a murder she didn't commit]].
445** Inverted in ''VideoGame/TombRaiderLegend'' where Lara Croft is British, while villains Amanda Evert and James Rutland have American accents.
446%%** Played straight with Sophia in ''VideoGame/TombRaiderIII''.
447* Errol from the ''VideoGame/JakAndDaxter'' series.
448** Gol and Maia seem to straddle the trope a bit. Gol's accent is a sort of hybrid, but Maia's accent is, initially, American (albeit with a few British pronunciations) - by the end of the game she's speaking with a completely English accent.
449** [[FatBastard Krew]] also has a British accent, [[spoiler:as does his daughter]].
450%%** As does [[spoiler: Duke Skyheed]].
451* ''VideoGame/SaintsRow'':
452** You can give the VillainProtagonist of ''VideoGame/SaintsRow2'' a Cockney accent.
453** Matt Miller from ''VideoGame/SaintsRowTheThird'', though [[VideoGame/SaintsRowIV in the following game]] he repents after the Boss spares his life. His entire gang has the accent, as a matter of fact.
454* This trope, coupled with the fact that ''TabletopGame/Warhammer40000'' was developed in the United Kingdom, is the reason most characters in ''VideoGame/DawnOfWar II'' and other Warhammer games usually speak with UsefulNotes/BritishAccents; [[BlackAndGreyMorality everybody]] [[EvilVersusEvil is]] [[CrapsackWorld evil]], so everybody speaks like a Brit. Orks are mostly Cockney, while the other factions' accents tend to lean more towards RP.
455* ''VideoGame/{{Fallout}}'':
456** The magnificent Creator/TonyJay as the [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8U9T8Z_Ayhw Lieutenant]] in ''VideoGame/Fallout1''.
457** According to WordOfGod, StarterVillain Allistair Tenpenny from ''VideoGame/Fallout3'' traveled to the Capital Wasteland from postwar Great Britain but [[IAmVeryBritish adopted a fake upper-class accent]] in order to look more impressive. He's also one of the few characters in the series to have the "Very Evil" rating on the KarmaMeter, as he was a RetiredMonster who was known to do some pretty heinous things back in the day but now limits himself to [[HuntingTheMostDangerousGame shooting passersby from his balcony]].
458* ''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.
459%%* [[BigBad Sofia Lamb]] from ''VideoGame/BioShock2''.
460* ''VideoGame/RedFaction'':
461** In ''Guerrilla'', [[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]].
462** Adam Hale of ''Armageddon'' is a more vanilla example.
463* In ''VideoGame/AgeOfEmpiresII'', the Brits are almost always the bad guys, regardless of whether they're fighting William Wallace, Joan of Arc, or William the Conqueror. [[NoCampaignForTheWicked With the exception of one scenario in the expansion pack (Agincourt), you never get to play as them]]
464* ''Franchise/AssassinsCreed'':
465** Subverted in ''VideoGame/AssassinsCreedI''. Despite his name, one may expect Robert de Sable to be British, as he works directly under UsefulNotes/RichardTheLionheart of England, but, both historically and in-game, he is French. Played straight with Maria Thorpe, the personal steward and right-hand woman to Robert de Sable only to be quickly subverted again in ''Bloodlines'' when she falls in love with Altair and gives birth to his son after the Third Crusade had ended.
466** 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/ThePatriot2000 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.
467*** Interestingly, the two top New World Templars that Connor is gunning for are Charles Lee and his own father Haytham.
468*** Connor spends a good chunk of the game shaking off this mindset [[spoiler:and eventually considers his former Revolutionary allies to be no better than the Redcoats since they also ultimately screw over his people for their own interests.]]
469** Jarringly done with the French Templars in ''VideoGame/AssassinsCreedUnity'' despite coming from another country where English isn't even the main language and previous games using French accents for French characters.
470** While the Templars are an international organization who will recruit from any country, throughout the games it's implied that a large part of their power base is in Britain; they back the British Empire throughout the Colonial Period (the Assassins back the French) and London is indisputably their territory until the events of ''VideoGame/AssassinsCreedSyndicate''.
471** Technically they're not British but [[spoiler:Flavius Metellus / The Lion]] and [[spoiler:Lucius Septimius / The Jackal]] of ''VideoGame/AssassinsCreedOrigins'' certainly fit the bill since they have RP accents just like every other Roman character in the game and they're both members of the proto-Templar Order of the Ancients. [[spoiler:Flavius]] in particular was not only responsible for killing Bayek and Aya's son Khemu but led the couple to go on a journey of revenge that gets them entangled in the messy, complicated world of Ancient Egyptian and Roman politics which leads to the formation of the Hidden Ones, the original incarnation of the Assassin Brotherhood.
472** Subverted with King Alfred the Great in ''VideoGame/AssassinsCreedValhalla''. Although he is certainly British and serves as the main antagonist of the game he's actually an AntiVillain that wants to protect England from Norse invaders unlike most examples of the trope on the list.
473* ''VideoGame/KidIcarusUprising'' plays this straight with [[spoiler:Hades]] and Arlon who, while not actually British, have distinctly British accents, [[EvilCounterpart Dark Pit]] has a slightly British tint to his voice at times.
474* The Helghast from the ''VideoGame/{{Killzone}}'' series have mostly British accents and are just [[SpaceJews Nazis IN SPACE]]! Though it's a little bit odd considering that the Helghast's homeworld of Helghan was colonized mostly by oppressed space settlers who were fleeing from the "oppressive ISA" and claim to be fighting for their freedom. Does anybody notice any similarities between the Helghast and a certain real-world former colony?
475** ''WebAnimation/ZeroPunctuation'' takes offense with ''Killzone 3'' because not only are the Helgahst Evil Brits, they ''speak with a Cockney accent'', which Croshaw gets annoyed with. It's easier to accept evil upper-class Brits, but Cockneys? Unforgiven.
476* ''VideoGame/MassEffect2'' has Zaeed. BountyHunter extraordinaire, a very skilled warrior... And also not giving a shit about burning alive some civilians to get his stuff done and letting his [[spoiler: Blue Suns]] soldiers getting killed due to him being a piss-poor tactician and a BadBoss. Though he will be softened up as of VideoGame/MassEffect3, especially if he's alive during Citadel DLC.
477** The second and third games give us the quarian [[InsaneAdmiral Admiral Daro'Xen.]] While she may not do anything particularly evil in any of the games, it's more or less established that she's an unstable sociopath with an unhealthy [[MadScientist obsession with controlling the geth.]] While two other admirals, Zaal'Koris and Han'Gerrel, have British accents, they aren't exactly evil but acting that way due to desperation considering the poor living conditions of their people since they were ejected from their homeworld and wanted to reclaim it back; Koris is kind of a {{Jerkass}} in ''2'' [[spoiler: but if you played the cards right, he will vouch for you if you want to reconcile the Quarians and the Geth and revealed to be AFatherToHisMen and a ReasonableAuthorityFigure]], while Gerrel is a pleasant and friendly GeneralRipper who, if he can't be reined in, will[[spoiler: either exterminate the geth or get the entire Migrant Fleet wiped out. He even tried to blow up a Geth Dreadnought while you and your squad are still inside.]]
478* 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.]]
479* ''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.
480* The first voice you hear in ''VideoGame/BaldursGate 2'' is David Warner's emphatically evil Jon Irenicus, complete with British accent.
481* In ''VideoGame/TheOrionConspiracy'', at least one character speaks English with a British accent. [[spoiler: Captain Shannon]], happens to be evil as well as speaking English with a posh British accent.
482* Played up with the Penguin's appearance in ''VideoGame/BatmanArkhamCity''. Not only does his British upbringing show, but he also has the accent and the word usage to back it up. Makes sense, since he preferred hanging out with {{London Gangster}}s instead of upper-class boys when he was at boarding school.
483-->''(while trying to shoot Batman [[spoiler:with Mr. Freeze's cannon]])'' Stay still, you wanker!
484* Nexus from ''VideoGame/Warzone2100'' speaks with a British accent, despite the setting of the game and all of its other voice actors being American.
485* The Chancellor of Rheinland in ''VideoGame/{{Freelancer}}'' was voiced by the late Tony Jay and leads the increasingly aggressive Rheinland nation ([[spoiler: except not really, since he's dead and taken over by an alien infestation seeking to plunge the human colonies into war to weaken them]]). This trope was almost certainly in mind, considering every other Rheinlander that actually is a character has a faux-German accent and the PlayerCharacter (who grew up in Bretonia and therefore ''should'' sound at least somewhat British) sounds American.
486%%* Wolf O'Donnell, in ''VideoGame/StarFox64''. His accent changed in later games.
487%%* Hoxton in ''VideoGame/PAYDAYTheHeist'' has a Sheffield accent.
488* In ''VideoGame/{{Wildstar}}'', the Cassians of [[TheEmpire the Dominion]] all speak with British accents while the humans of the Exiles all have American/Southern accents. However, this trope gets subverted or downplayed with various Cassians; such as [[ThePaladin Toric Antevian]], [[ReasonableAuthorityFigure competent and dutiful bureaucrats]], and humble commoners.
489* ''VideoGame/AceCombatZeroTheBelkanWar'' features two aces from a villainous Germanic country with inexplicably British accents, one with a working-class Cockney (Grun 1), and one with a more posh accent who evidently runs a very profitable business (Indigo 1)
490* [[spoiler:Superintendent Pendrew]] in ''VideoGame/SleepingDogs2012''. 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.
491* ''VideoGame/TheStanleyParable'': The Narrator acts like a total villain at times, even trapping you in the building in one ending so he can watch you squirm and eventually die. This villainy comes complete with evil chuckling… however, [[AmbiguouslyEvil he helps you in some endings.]]
492* Roger Bacon of the first ''VideoGame/ShadowHearts1'' ([[spoiler:actually his former pupil Albert Simon]]) plays this to a T, complete with sharing a spot of tea with his minions while scheming, tossing dry British wit at "rival" baddies, and being a proper gentleman even in the midst of dooms-day scenarios, hell, [[AffablyEvil ESPECIALLY in the midst of dooms-day scenarios!]] [[spoiler: though ultimately subverted when we find out [[WellIntentionedExtremist he was going to put it all right when he was done.]]]]
493%%* Luxord from ''VideoGame/KingdomHeartsII'' has a smooth British accent, though he's really [[PunchClockVillain one of the less evil members]] of the Organization.
494* Jin Kisaragi from ''Franchise/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.
495* Majid Sadiq, the main antagonist of ''VideoGame/SplinterCellBlacklist'' is an [[RogueAgent ex-MI6]] British-Pakistani [[UsefulNotes/TheWarOnTerror terrorist]] with a fitting Received Pronunciation accent to boot.
496%%* ''VideoGame/FiveNightsAtFreddysSisterLocation'' reveals [[spoiler:[[WouldHurtAChild the Purple Guy]]]] is this.
497* ''VideoGame/AHatInTime'' has [[BigBad Mustache Girl]], who has a British accent, as well as [[spoiler:The Conductor if you side against him in the Battle of the Birds, being a Scottish example of the trope]].
498* ''Franchise/FarCry''
499** ''VideoGame/FarCry4'' has Pagan Min, the (apparent) BigBad and [[TheCaligula tyrant ruler]] of the Himalayan nation of Kyrat. Pagan is ethnically Chinese, but he speaks with an English accent and however [[AffablyEvil friendly]] he comes across as to Ajay, he's still a brutal despot to the Kyrati nation. The accent makes sense when you learn that Pagan had an English mother and was born in Hong Kong when it was still a British colony. Ironically, Pagan's voice actor Creator/TroyBaker is neither English nor Chinese- he's Caucasian American. [[spoiler:Also, given later reveals in the story, Pagan is a LighterShadeOfBlack compared to the [[FullCircleRevolution Golden Path leaders]] Ajay puts in power.]]
500*** Also Yogi and Reggie, a pair of villains who drug Ajay and send him to the Shannath arena to compete in GladiatorGames. That said, they're not really that evil, and never do anything evil again for the rest of the game, apart from repeatedly testing their drugs on him. Also, [[WhatTheHellIsThatAccent you can't really tell from their accents whereabouts in England they're from]].
501** [[MadScientist Dr. Carlyle]] in ''VideoGame/FarCry3BloodDragon'' speaks with the natural English accent of Creator/RobinAtkinDownes, and he's a viciously hammy Englishman who pits Sergeant Rex Power Colt against cyborg soldiers and [[OurDragonsAreDifferent Blood Dragons]] while cackling over the PA. [[spoiler:Too bad his mistreated female AI kills him offscreen before we ever get to meet him, though.]]
502%%* ''VideoGame/TheTuringTest'': [[spoiler:TOM is lacking in goodness, and speaks with a British accent]].
503* The English dub of ''VideoGame/ValkyriaChronicles'' has the imperialistic, war-mongering, spouse-battering [[EvilPrince Maximillian]] as the only character in the game to speak with a British accent. The two sympathetic members of his Triumvirate[[note]]The only overtly villainous one- Gregor, is given a thick [[NaziNobleman German accent]][[/note]], [[PunchClockVillain Jaeger]] and [[LoveMartyr Selvaria]] by contrast, have American accents much like the rest of the heroic cast.
504* [[PlanetLooters The Hierarchy]] of ''VideoGame/UniverseAtWar'', at least when not speaking in their own, incomprehensible language. A notable exception is [[NobleTopEnforcer Orlok]] which gives you an early hint that he is the one shred of morality and compassion that exists within their ranks.
505* Since ''VideoGame/Battlezone1998'' takes place in a [[AlternateHistory secret interplanetary Cold War]] the choice of antagonist was [[RedScare obvious]]. However the US and Russia have put aside their differences by the time of the sequel, so cue [[spoiler:[[GeneralRipper General Armand Braddock]].]]
506* ''VideoGame/SkiesOfArcadia'': Valua is modelled on a mixture of Imperial Spain and Victorian Britain, and the game draws heavily on the British EvilColonialist archetype for a rogues gallery of coldly self-interested intellectuals, [[UpperClassTwit self-absorbed upper-class fops]], and [[AntiVillain honourable old gentlemen]] [[MyCountryRightOrWrong who are too loyal to the corrupt system they serve to change it]]. The capital of Valua is a twisted exaggeration of Charles Dickins' Gilded Age London, where fat and complacent uptown rich live in splendid luxury while the other half live in smoggy, industrial sprawl which literally never receives sunlight under clouds caused by rampant pollution. The Valuans' foreign policy is basically to conquer all the other lands ([[{{Qurac}} Nasr]], [[{{Mayaincatec}} Ixa'taka]] and [[{{Wutai}} Yafutoma]]) using their superior navy and technology and squeezing resources and wealth out of them.
507* {{Inverted|trope}} in ''VideoGame/XenobladeChronicles2'', which is dubbed in the UK like [[VideoGame/XenobladeChronicles the rest of the series]]; while the heroes have a variety of British accents with their Blades having American accents, all the main antagonists (the Organization of Torna, plus Praetor Amalthus) have American accents.
508* ''VideoGame/SunsetRiders'': Sir Richard Rose.
509* ''Franchise/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 his evilness increases in direct proportion to his Britishness as the series goes on. Very, ''very'' [[FakeBrit fake]], [[EvilIsHammy exaggeratedly]] [[Administrivia/TropesAreTools delicious]] Britishness.
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513* ''VisualNovel/TheGreatAceAttorney'': Jezaille Brett serves as PlayerCharacter Ryunosuke Naruhodo's first taste of the British Empire. A ForeignExchangeStudent to Japan who witnessed the first case taking place, Jezaille quickly sets herself up as [[HateSink an enormous piece of work]] when she reveals she [[CompletelyUnnecessaryTranslator speaks Japanese fluently]], but [[ElectiveUnintelligible refuses to]] because she's ''[[PoliticallyIncorrectVillain just that racist]]''. True to form, she's soon revealed as the murderer, and an [[TheSociopath utterly remorseless one]] at that. Jezaille then [[SmugSnake smugly]] informs the court that due to DiplomaticImpunity, there's ''nothing'' they can do to her. [[spoiler:In the second game of the duology, "Jezaille Brett" turns out to be a totally fake name. Her real identity is Asa Shinn, a ProfessionalKiller hired by the BigBad to commit that very murder.]]
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517* WebAnimation/InanimateInsanity: [[spoiler:Taco, who eventually [[ObfuscatingStupidity drops her comic relief dimness]], and steals the prize which [=MePhone=] confirms to be a decoy]].
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521* ''Webcomic/{{EVIL|2016}}'' has Vincent Kahn, the resident assistant, who is of the cockney variety. He is also [[AffablyEvil one of the nicest characters in the series]].
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525* Yahtzee from WebAnimation/ZeroPunctuation starts [[http://www.escapistmagazine.com/videos/view/zero-punctuation/2915-Killzone-3 his review of Killzone 3]] with a lengthy (and surprisingly straight-faced) rant against this trope
526--> Pardon me for being predictable, but I am now going to complain about how all the bad guys in Killzone are British - because someone should be pissed about this, [[CausticCritic and it might as well be me.]] I stood up for the Russians when I reviewed all those fantasy Cold War wank games, and I don't even know any Russians. I'm fine with that thing where the main villain is a posh British guy because let's face it: Cooing at rainbows sounds evil if you do it in a posh British accent. It is only when you make all the evil soldiers Cockney that you enter the prejudiced parade. Cockney doesn't sound evil, it sounds honest and cheeky-chips lovable. You can't picture Creator/DickVanDyke hiding in the bushes in a park popping children's balloons with a blow-pipe. You might say that I make too much of a fuss, but someone in the dev-team at some point said to themself: "We have a race where every individual member is so morally bankrupt that the player feels perfectly justifiable splattering them painfully against the scenery. Now, how do we bring that across with some sort of vocal short-hand?" And the most bitter pill to swallow is this: [[PuttingOnTheReich They all look like Nazis.]] '''''We helped defeat the Nazis!'''''
527%%* [[spoiler:Gemma]] from ''WebVideo/Lonelygirl15'' is revealed to be this in season 1.
528%%** And [[spoiler:Elizabeth Avery]] in season 3.
529%%** And while we [[TheVoiceless never hear his accent]], BigBad Lord Carruthers is also English.
530%%* ''WebAnimation/RedVsBlue'': Freelancer Wyoming is a Type 1 example.
531%%* ''WebVideo/{{Caper}}'': Doc English.
532%%* Bowser in ''WebAnimation/DorklyOriginals'' is always speaking in a sophisticated British accent.
533* In ''WebVideo/GantzAbridged'', the titular RoboticPsychopath is introduced with a British accent, but then immediately switches to a mechanical voice (think Steven Hawking).
534* The upcoming ''Sims'' machinima ''[[https://www.youtube.com/user/CollisionProduction1 Project EYEris]] features the antagonist Officer Bernard played by, you guessed it, a guy with a British accent. Oddly enough, said character doesn't actually ''look'' British.
535%%* Freeza in ''WebVideo/DragonBallZAbridged'' has a refined British accent courtesy of Creator/LittleKuriboh.
536%%** Dr. Gero follows suit.
537* WebVideo/DiamandaHagan herself is Irish. ... er... Hagastanic, but she likes to point out this trope whenever it enters a movie she reviews.
538%%* ''WebAnimation/DrCrafty'': The eponymous character is a MadScientist with a British accent.
539* The villainous Viceroy from ''WebAnimation/{{Chadam}}'' has a British accent, and is the only character to have one.
540* ''ARG/TheNoedolekcinArchives'': Kirk Odd is a malevolent entity responsible for the Nickelodeon broadcast errors, and he talks in a low, British accent.
541* WebVideo/TheNostalgiaCritic's review of ''Film/{{Dreamcatcher}}'' had [[WebVideo/FilmBrain Mathew Buck]] guest-star as the "inexplicably British villain" in a parody of the British accent used in the movie. This exploits Malcolm's biggest fear - not of Buck or his actions, but of ''[[LampshadeHanging this trope]]'' specifically.
542* ''Website/SCPFoundation'': The short story [[http://www.scp-wiki.net/the-young-man "The Young Man"]] gives the origin of SCP-106 as a corporal in the British Army in World War One. [[HumanoidAbomination That's not to say he]] WasOnceAMan, [[HumanoidAbomination however...]]
543* On this very Wiki, some {{Troll}} launched a trope page called BritishNazis to convince people that British people are AlwaysChaoticEvil, while at the same time praising Scottish people for their "candid" portrayal of English people as absolute bastards in ''Film/{{Braveheart}}''. BritishNazis has since been reactivated as an actual trope having PuttingOnTheReich villains be played by British actors.
544* "[[https://youtu.be/d1jhWizYuFw Accent of Evil]]" by Dr Geoff Lindsay goes into some of the subtleties of this trope. In particular, because Received Pronunciation is the accent of ''authority'', it can also be for mentor characters, e.g. Obi Wan Kenobi from ''Film/ANewHope'', or Gandalf from ''Film/TheLordOfTheRings''.
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548* [[MasterOfIllusion Mad Mod]] (pictured) in ''WesternAnimation/TeenTitans2003'' plays this to a [[StealthPun T]], though he's a mostly comical villain rather than a serious threat (and at one point it's remarked that even real British people can't stand him). Stereotypes, mania, and ridiculous antics ensue.
549** He also speaks with a faintly Liverpudlian accent rather than the typical villainous RP.
550** Brother Blood, one of the major {{Big Bad}}s, also speaks with an aristocratic, vaguely British accent, despite being voiced by [[FakeBrit American]] Creator/JohnDiMaggio.
551** [[MonsterOfTheWeek One-off villain Malchior]] from the episode "Spellbound" had an English accent, although he was intended to be an ''ancient'' spirit.
552%%* Mumm-Ra in ''WesternAnimation/ThunderCats2011''. Voiced by Creator/RobinAtkinDownes.
553* It isn't clear why supposedly Cajun master-of-disguise Zartan had an English accent on the ''WesternAnimation/GIJoe'' cartoon series. It is clear that he was a villain.
554** Zartan ''lived'' in the Bayou. The cartoon never tells us where he originally came from, but he and all the Dreadnoks have British accents.
555* Parodied on ''WesternAnimation/MonkeyDust'' in their version of Anne Frank's Diary. Yes, the young Irish girl is holding out for the American love interest Johnny to save her and her family of line-dancing drunks. Meanwhile, in Berlin, England, English Hitler is planning to capture Anne Frank and marry her. Needless to say, Johnny and the gang end up beating up Adolf for President Churchill.
556** ''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 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".
557* Averted in ''WesternAnimation/AvatarTheLastAirbender''. Creator/JasonIsaacs plays the first season's BigBad Admiral Zhao as a FakeAmerican, seemingly to specifically avoid the most villainous man seen at that point in the Fire Nation also being the only Englishman. At this point, we hadn't seen Ozai or Azula...
558* ''WesternAnimation/FamilyGuy'': explains the [[UnexplainedAccent otherwise inexplicable fact]] that EnfantTerrible Stewie has a British accent when born into an American family.
559* ''WesternAnimation/TheFairlyOddParents'': Anti-Cosmo. Accent, posh, outfit, FANGS! He's a textbook example. In fact, many fans have portrayed him as a vampire.
560* ''WesternAnimation/BatmanTheAnimatedSeries'': Evil mastermind Ra's Al Ghul has a cultured British accent, courtesy of Creator/DavidWarner.
561** David also voiced the Lobe from ''WesternAnimation/{{Freakazoid}}'' - also an Evil Brit, as much as a comedic villain with an exposed brain for a face can be anyway.
562** David pops up again as Alpha, a major BigBad in ''WesternAnimation/MenInBlackTheSeries''.
563** David's also [[WesternAnimation/TheGrimAdventuresOfBillyAndMandy Nergal]], [[WesternAnimation/BuzzLightyearOfStarCommand Lord Angstrom]], [[WesternAnimation/{{Gargoyles}} The Archmage]] and so on.
564** In ''WesternAnimation/BatmanUnderTheRedHood'', Ra's' cultured British accent is provided by Jason Isaacs.
565** Also in this continuity, The Mad Hatter actually ''is'' British this time around. (Batman refers to him as such in "The Worry Men".)
566%%* ''WesternAnimation/SupermanTheAnimatedSeries'': Superman's enemy Metallo was turned into an Evil Brit.
567* Terrence from ''WesternAnimation/TotallySpies''. Even though [[spoiler:[[LukeIAmYourFather his brother]]]] Jerry is a good guy.
568%%* A whole page of [[TrrrillingRrrs Evil Brrrrrrrrits]] and we haven't mentioned [[WesternAnimation/AdventuresOfSonicTheHedgehog Long John Baldrrrrrrrry's take on Dr. Rrrrrrrrobotnik]]?
569* Most British characters on ''WesternAnimation/PhineasAndFerb'' are good, but there is an alien villain named Mitch that has a British accent.
570** [[spoiler: Ferb]] briefly becomes this in the ''Franchise/StarWars'' [[WesternAnimation/PhineasAndFerbStarWars special]] after getting hit with Darthenschmirtz's Sith-inator.
571* The extraterrestrial but yet still-so-British Killface on ''WesternAnimation/FriskyDingo''.
572* The ''WesternAnimation/KimPossible'' villain Monkey Fist is a British Lord... and one of the few villains who is genuinely nasty on a regular basis.
573** A less prominent example is [[IKnowMaddenKombat golf-obsessed]] [[ViolentGlaswegian Scotsman]] Duff Killigan.
574* ''WesternAnimation/LooneyTunes''' Marvin the Martian started out with a nasally American voice, but then was given a snooty, sort-of upper-class English accent. This trope is so naughty, he could just ''pinch'' it!
575%%* [[BigBad Van Kleiss]] of ''WesternAnimation/GeneratorRex''.
576* Megabyte of ''WesternAnimation/ReBoot'' has a British accent, voiced by the late Creator/TonyJay. Tony Jay's voice was ''[[EvilSoundsDeep made]]'' for this trope. Disney's ''WesternAnimation/{{The Hunchback of Notre Dame|Disney}}'' and before that ''WesternAnimation/BeautyAndTheBeast'' showcases Jay's voice at its Evil Brit best.
577%%* Gentleman Ghost in ''WesternAnimation/BatmanTheBraveAndTheBold'' is one of these, with the distinctive voice of GregEllis.
578* David Ogden Stiers often played either this or the "snooty Brit" in his voice acting roles, including the Penguin in ''WesternAnimation/BatmanMysteryOfTheBatwoman'' and Governor Ratcliffe in ''WesternAnimation/{{Pocahontas}}''.
579%%* Snidely Whiplash from ''WesternAnimation/DudleyDoRight''.
580%%** Or the other half of DastardlyWhiplash, Dick Dastardly.
581* Peep the pickpocket in ''WesternAnimation/JimmyTwoShoes'', though his accent is Cockney rather than anything distinguished.
582* Emma Frost from the ''ComicBook/XMen'' comics is usually {{Race Lift}}ed to British in any animated version, whether or not they reflect her canonical HeelFaceTurn.
583** Though the few mentions of her accent in the comics have made it clear that it is one of the many fake things about her.
584* ''WesternAnimation/JackieChanAdventures'' had an evil Englishman named Valmont, who was the boss of the Dark Hand crime syndicate. The show seemed to like this trope, as about several other [[VillainOfTheWeek minor villains]] happened to be British as well.
585* In ''WesternAnimation/TheBoondocks'' episode "The Fundraiser", it turns out that World's Ultimate Chocolate, a company that produces chocolate bars for school fundraisers, is actually an [[LondonGangster English crime syndicate]], that [[ItMakesSenseInContext sends out hired thugs to harass schoolkids for daring to sell their chocolate independently]].
586* ''WesternAnimation/{{Jem}}'' has got Jetta, the pathologically lying saxophonist with criminal connections from Britain who joins the Misfits in the second season. She's regarded as the TokenEvilTeammate of a band that was already considered the bad guy group of the show. She's the only Misfit who's tried to scam her bandmates, as seen in ''Britrock'', where she convinced her parents to help her convince Pizzazz she was British royalty by promising that they could bilk her out of millions. That episode helped provide something of a FreudianExcuse by showing that Jetta grew up in a lower-class British home, and the fact that her parents were willing to go to such lengths to make money (and had already assumed the worst when Jetta contacted them), it's easier to understand what drives Jetta.
587* Katz from ''WesternAnimation/CourageTheCowardlyDog'' is this and one of the scariest villains on the show.
588%%* Tyson from ''WesternAnimation/SanjayAndCraig''.
589* {{Discussed}} on ''WesternAnimation/{{Daria}},'' after Ms. Li makes an announcement over the intercom:
590-->'''Jane:''' Is that the voice in my head that tells me to kill and kill again?\
591'''Daria:''' No. {{Satan}}'s voice is lower and he has an English accent.
592%%* King K. Rool is this in ''WesternAnimation/DonkeyKongCountry''.[[note]]Coincidentally, he was also this in ''VideoGame/DonkeyKong64'', which this show predates, but then again, Rare Ltd. (the developers of the game) is a British company...[[/note]]
593* Being a spirit, [[BigBad Zarm]] on ''[[WesternAnimation/CaptainPlanetAndThePlaneteers Captain Planet]]'' doesn't really have a nationality...but still falls under this trope due to Music/{{Sting}} voicing him in his first 4 appearances (continued by Creator/DavidWarner and Creator/MalcolmMcDowell).
594%%* NOS-4-A2 from ''WesternAnimation/BuzzLightyearOfStarCommand'' speaks with an English accent, despite being voiced by the [[FakeBrit Scottish]] Creator/CraigFerguson.
595%%* ''WesternAnimation/{{Bibleman}}'': The Baroness.
596* ''WesternAnimation/{{Droners}}'': The Sirens wear costumes that evoke modernized victorian motifs or uniforms that wouldn't be out of place in your average Verne-inspired Steampunk story, and speak with British-sounding accents. They're also among the usual "evil" teams.
597* [[BigBad Emperor Belos]] from ''WesternAnimation/TheOwlHouse'' has a British voice actor and speaks with a Britsh accent. [[spoiler:It's also revealed part way though season 2 that he's actually a British colonist from 1600s Connecticut, and [[DeliberateValuesDissonance his outdated sensibilities]] play a direct role in his motivations and goals.]]
598* ''WesternAnimation/TheLegendOfTarzan'': Clayton's death in the original movie has lead to its legacy episode "Tarzan and the Gaunlet of Vengeance", where his younger sister [[TragicVillain Lady Waltham]] commits a misguided vengeance against Tarzan, thinking that the latter was the one who killed her brother (even though that was completely an accident done by Clayton himself). Thankfully, by the end of that episode, [[FemalesAreMoreInnocent she changed]] [[HeelFaceTurn her ways]] once Tarzan saves her from the black panthers Nuru and Sheeta, feeling remorseful for her vengeance.
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