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- Diabolik and Eva Kant are unfailingly polite, calm and nice unless they need to be threatening (and sometimes they will be polite even then) or you earn their wrath, and are rather good with children. They also happen to be the world's greatest thief and scariest murderer and his partner in crime and lover, and each of them has a body count in the hundreds at least.
- Empowered:
- ThugBoy and his crew early on. ThugBoy goes out of his way to ensure a hostage's comfort, and assures her that "This is business, not sadism, okay?" The leader, Frank, stays friends with ThugBoy even after trying to kill him for betraying the group, and gives him relationship advice.
- Ninjette, who was originally hired to take out Empowered, but ended up becoming her best friend.
- Manny, a Littlest Cancer Patient who wanted to be a supervillain. His Make A Wish is to tie up a superhero, but is incredibly polite and talks about how he researched how to do it effectively, but also without undue discomfort. He eventually takes a drug that makes him super-smart at the cost of vastly accelerating his cancer, and captures another villain with flesh-altering powers from Empowered, threatening her with several giant mechs while she is barely functional. But he's so darn polite, to the point of being nicer to her in their confrontation than most of her teammates are while working with her.
- The Caged Demonwolf is an Eldritch Abomination that Emp captured while out on a mission, leaving him to be a Sealed Evil in a Can. He can talk and perceive his surroundings, but he can't actually do anything, so they just leave his prison (a set of bondage gear) on the couch and treat him like a somewhat annoying roommate and ignore that he once tried to wipe out humanity and rants every day about doing it again. Underneath all the bluster, he's a Jerk with a Heart of Gold who considers Emp and her fellows to be good friends of his, and bears no ill will for his imprisonment (he's immortal; a few decades of being stuck on a couch and watching reality TV aren't a big deal).
- As can be seen from above, it's almost a bit of a theme that many of the villains are nicer to Empowered than her own teammates.
- Gepetto in Fables. His kindly-old-grandfather manner isn't entirely a pose.
- The Crypt Keeper, Vault Keeper, and Old Witch of EC comics were murderous ghouls, but remarkably personable and humourous.
- Axel Borg, of the French comic Le Franc, is a charismatic, cultured, and polite villain of the Magnificent Bastard variety, who always treats his captured enemies well, and who, on occasion, will side with the hero in order to bring down a greater threat.
- Kroenen from Hellboy is a meek, polite fellow who goes out of his way to help his friends, even when he knows it'll get him in trouble. He's also a Nazi cyborg bent on destroying the world.
- Mistress Ilsa from Monstress. A slave dealer whose specialty is Arcanic children, she is pretty unquestionably a villain. However, she isn't terrible about it. She lies to the children about their fate at the Cumaea compound (though that might have been to keep them from struggling), she offers Maika her cigarette in a small act of simple kindness, and when Maika is unchained and led into the Cumaea compound, she wishes her well and asks her to send her best to her daughter, who apparently she doubts she'll ever see again.
- Jeffrey Dahmer in the biographical My Friend Dahmer is a Real Life example. In high school, Dahmer became known as a Class Clown who had a fan club started in his honor after he pranked students and teachers with fake cerebral palsy fits. The author, Derf Backderf, drew humorous sketches of Dahmer for the school's yearbook and student elections. There is also a photo shown of Dahmer joking around at school.
- Charon from Negation is the epitome of this trope. The cosmic-powered ruler of a universe-spanning empire that everyone lives in fear of acts like a laid-back, ridiculously mellow guy without a care in the world. Justified in that he purged himself of all his negative emotions eons ago.
- Lucifer from The Sandman (1989) and his own Spin-Off series Lucifer is always polite and eloquent, even in his speech bubbles. He stops being evil by The Season of Mists and settles for being a somewhat amoral Deadpan Snarker. ... and dives right back in to being evil in his solo series (the very first plot arc opens with him casually destroying another angel's several millennia of work over a mistake). He is still impeccably polite (until deliberately provoked), and always keeps his word.
- Shade, the Changing Man encounters the "Devil", who comes across as a civilized, cultured gentleman who eventually stabs him in the back. He is Satan, after all.Kathy: You haven't... given up your soul or anything?
Shade: He's not interested in souls. And he's not really the Devil. And he's not as bad as you think. Quite easygoing, really. - Senator Greyshade in the first run of Star Wars (Marvel 1977). One can picture him asking Darth Vader "Don't you ever have any FUN?"
- Mr. Lamb, one of the late villains created by Floyd Gottfredson in The Syndicate of Crime. Sincere tears come when Mickey Mouse and Eega Beeva refuse to join his gang and prefer to die: "This is going to hurt us more than it does you!"
- Cap'n Blaze from Terry and the Pirates. He may be a warlord, but he is a jolly old soul who enjoys a game of checkers with his captives.
- Transformers: Shattered Glass: Dirge is supposed to be a hero, but really works for Alpha Trion and his insane schemes for peace. This does not stop him from being cheery and polite, even to his prisoners.
- Transformers: Wings of Honor: Portrays Runabout and Runamuck this way, despite being physically the oldest of most of their colleagues (who are teenagers, and quite nice themselves), act the youngest, explaining the war (and some deleted scenes) to Jhiaxus, with child like enthusiasm. They befriend an amnesic Side-burn, race with him, and give him dating advice.
- The Doll-Master from Wanted. He's a member of a supervillain Fraternity that rules the world. He's also a loving family man who never swears in front of children.
- Adrian Veidt, AKA Ozymandias in Watchmen. In addition to being a Well-Intentioned Extremist (on a par with Ra's al Ghul in that regard), he's also gentlemanly, witty, and calm, even in hand-to-hand combat. He treats his underlings kindly (right until he drugs them and leaves them to die of exposure to prevent his secrets from getting out, while apologizing for rewarding them so poorly). When his former crimefighting colleagues track him down and learn of his master plan, he gives them the opportunity to keep silent, and when all of them (except Rorschach) agree, he trusts them enough to not only let them live, but to offer them hospitality in his fortress and allow them to leave freely. Hardly seems fair to hold the deaths of millions of innocent people against him.
- Zero: Nova is a violent dangerous terrorist who is oddly polite and even affectionate to Edward. The effect is creepy.
