Ah! My Goddess
- Ah! Archfall!:
- Hild, who may rule Hell but she appears to have developed a liking to Jago due to his bluff and open nature. Enough to give him her personal phone number.
- Damascus is THE original Nightmare and doesn't like anyone, to the point that she has actually threatened to EAT Noble Scarlet. However, she becomes fiercely loyal to Jago and though him Lamb, Lind, and the others, willing to risk her own life to save them. Plus she likes Jammy Dodgers.
- Tech 10 Rebooted has Warlord Kroz, a fairly decent person to be around until you fight him, and even then, he mostly remains calm and collected.
- In Downfall, most of the villains are motivated by truly noble intentions. Of course, any fic that has Unohana, Ukitake, and Kyoraku working to overthrow the Seireitei...it's a given. Bonus points for making Aizen, Gin, and Tousen the good guys. Realistically. By the time the reader's done, they want Seireitei burnt to the ground...
- Alabaster Orchestra:
- Bazz-B has no problem flirting with or poking fun at his enemies in the midst of battle.
- The Emperor holds a civilized discourse with Aizen.
- Aizen as well, reciprocating the Emperor's respect even as he politely declines the offer to join the Vandenreich in exchange for his freedom. He even politely offers condolences to the Emperor when he senses Driscoll's death.
- Mask quickly befriends Ichigo and offers him support after he joins the Empire.
- The elderly and bespectacled Stern Ritter gives Ichigo a supportive nod during his induction into the Stern Ritter.
- In A Protector's Pride, Hell seems to spend most of his time in combat complimenting his opponents when they impress him, such as with Hachi's barriers and Yamamoto's bankai.
- In False Smiles
, the Scoobies manage to stop Mayor Wilkins' ascension by first finding out exactly what he needs to do and when he needs to do it in order to ascend in the first place, and then stopping him from meeting all the requirements. At the end of the story, the Mayor, who is still technically invincible and immortal, actually congratulates the Scoobies on a job well done, and thanks them for being such fine upstanding examples of young people taking an interest in the safety of the community. He also remarks that he'll just wait around until his next chance to turn into a gigantic man-eating snake demon. In the meantime, he tells them, he's going to concentrate on civic improvement and keeping the "bad elements" out of Sunnydale.
- All For Luz: Perry Porter runs a Deadly Game tournament in an Underground City he founded and is a loyal supporter of the original All For One. Other than that, he's a pretty chill guy and loving father to Gus. Especially if you're a fellow All For One ally, don't double-cross him and want to help him overthrow Emperor Belos.
- Child of the Storm has Baron Zemo, who is perfectly calm and polite at all times, will take the time to genuinely compliment a Worthy Opponent on their stratagem/skills, and the most impolite he ever gets is mildly snarky. He's also a ruthless Social Darwinist who believes entirely in HYDRA's agenda of placing 'the strong' above 'the weak', as well as being both utterly merciless and beyond deadly in close-quarters combat.
- Alexander Pierce fits this perfectly, being perfectly friendly towards Lucius in their meeting, later charming Harry and Freki and Geri, and promising, once Harry mentions that Nick Fury (a close friend of his mother) hasn't dropped by for a visit, or even sent a message, to arrange for one, ordering it if necessary. In other words, he acts like a kindly grandfather. He also puts Lucius on edge (since both are aware that the other will dispose of them as soon as they are no longer necessary), stealthily manipulates Harry into emotional turmoil so he can discreetly get a reading on his powers, and doesn't even bat an eyelid when Lucius mentions that he plans to kill Harry, merely remarking that it's mildly regrettable since he rather liked him.
- Sinister tends to speak in a Creepy Monotone and regards humanity and other species as his personal petri dish. However, he's also usually polite, and almost never raises his voice... until Maddie breaks his control. Then he loses it a bit.
- Dracula, for all his occasional savagery (which is usually calculated, and unsurprising considering his historical counterpart) has strict standards, a distaste for underhanded tactics (even though he acknowledges their occasional necessity), and is generally fairly cultured and polite. However, he's also a borderline example, as if you manage to really make him angry... then you'll see the monster beneath.
- Children of an Elder God: Nyarlathotep is polite, congenial, and charismatic... even when he is readying to obliterate your soul. When Asuka and Touji are fighting him and even swearing at him, he remains non-offended and even amused.
- Dungeon Keeper Ami has Mukrezar and his Butler. One, a quirky Genius Ditz, with a serious bloodthirsty streak that fails to actually compromise his charisma. The other, Wicked Cultured, with Manly Facial Hair and a classy suit. A literal Battle Butler. Both? Awesome.The skeleton that teleported onto the battlements had a gilded skull covered partly by a ruby mask. "Mukrezar!"
The pointy-eared Keeper didn't turn around. "I'm busy," he said, pointing across the tooth-shaped crenellations of his dungeon. "Those corpses won't poison themselves, High Priest."
"Mukrezar, you must-"
On the blood-soaked battlefield, a white cave crow keeled over, a half-devoured eye in its beak.
"This would be so much easier if those fools just caved in to my eminently reasonable demands, but no! They prefer me killing them and turning to cannibalism." He shook his head slowly, making disappointed noises.
"I have important instructions from-"
"Actually, since you are here, how about you zombify some of those corpses for me? The meal climbing out of the pot to wreak carnage upon the starving defenders would be deliciously ironic, in my opinion."
"SHUT UP!"
Mukrezar finally turned around and looked his visitor up and down. Water dripped from the skeleton's richly-embroidered robes, creating a puddle around its feet. The elf looked pointedly at the garment's singed fringe, which was still steaming. "Bad day?" - In the Jackie Chan Adventures and Teen Titans crossover fanfiction A Shadow of the Titans, Gadjo, despite being an Ax-Crazy psychotic Blood Knight, seems to be a pretty nice guy when he's not trying to kill you.
- Continuing Aleine Skyfire's trend (see the Sherlock Holmes listing below), Colonel Moran is made even more complicated in Children of Time, trying to rape a 17-year-old girl before he kills her and yet respecting that same girl's unconditional love for Holmes. And speaking genuinely normally with Holmes while torturing him. Yeah.
- In the same series, Professor Moriarty is Faux Affably Evil, and yet he has his moments in which you get the feeling he just might be sincere.
- Which is taken up to true Affably Evil with his clone in the second season. He has rather less of a vendetta against Sherlock and is something of a fairly polite and definitely respectful Stalker with a Crush towards Beth Holmes.
- Equestria Girls: Friendship Souls:
- Despite being Arrancar and as a species acclimated to violence and negative emotions naturally, Ember, Di Roy, Lament, and Roka can be pretty nice and friendly. Despite his more brutal nature Torch also has enough positive traits to avoid falling into Faux Affably Evil territory.
- Thorax, Pharynx, and Ocellus, despite their mother Chrysalis being Faux Affably Evil incarnate, are all shown to be surprisingly well-adjusted and civil Arrancar who never go out their way to act like assholes to others.
- In Event Horizon: Storm of Magic, The Company™ is a ruthless and amoral futuristic MegaCorp, but most of their staff are pleasant, polite, and genuinely friendly people.
- In Game of Touhou, a lot of villains are very affable: Seiga will casually hand one of her whores to others (until she breaks down), Yukari is soft-speaking, Yuyuko enjoys chatting with the smallfolk.
- In Royal Heights, the main antagonist Embry is quite the educated and polite Hot Witch with a classy wardrobe and even classier personality. She has a penchant for manors, offers tea to her visitors, and is incredibly gleeful and passionate about her plans to destroy an entire dimension.
- In Origin Story, there's Magneto, in the appropriately titled Chapter 21: “Breakfast With Magneto”.
- A Loud Among Demons: Millie makes it clear that she has little problem with assassination, and can be very cold-blooded when the situation calls for it, but she's incredibly sweet and kind to Lincoln.
- In Deal with a Devil the slaver who captures Harry Potter is openly and honestly friendly to Harry. Unlike most examples, this only serves to make him more horrific in Harry's mind; the man sells children into slavery and treats it like it's just another job. His only saving grace is that he's clearly uncomfortable that some of them are likely to be sex slaves; not uncomfortable enough to stop selling children into slavery though.
- Harry and his new "friends" in Ace Of Spades can be quite polite.
- Vulpes Inculta of A Dead World is soft-spoken and polite for a Legionary; you could almost forget that he would have absolutely no problem with crucifying an entire village just to make a point. Which he did.
- Ulquiorra in A Hollow in Equestria is definitely this. Despite his blunt nature, he's capable of being polite to others and willing to engage in thought-provoking conversations over a cup of tea. Despite being polite he has no qualms with killing whatever gets in his way. He'll even pay you a compliment before ripping your heart out of your chest in front of your friends.
- First Quarter in Manehattan's Lone Guardian legitimately remembers and cares for all of the children they've ever had throughout their long life, endorses a crush that one of their elites has on their personal butler for grins and giggles, holds jovial conversations with their underlings, and is an outright Benevolent Boss. None of this hides the facts that they manipulated their elites into joining their inner circle to start with, steals the bodies of other ponies to keep living whenever their current shell dies of illness or age, and is fixated on destroying Leviathan and ousting Celestia from power.
- In The Many Dates of Danny Fenton, Cree Lincoln from Codename: Kids Next Door is like this at the start of her date, though she drops the Affably part after Danny dumps her upon discovering her child-hating nature.
- The Marvelous World Of DC: Rasputin is pretty polite for a demon-worshiping mystic. So is The Kingpin. Indeed, Fisk is a lot more polite than Lex Luthor, his partner.
- What the Cat Dragged In has its Final Boss, Peacemonger. He scolds Natasha for being rude, his motivations involve the protection of innocent civilians (even if his methods leave much to be desired), and he absolutely refuses to harm Ladybug and Chat Noir in their fight because they're both minors. This only ends up disturbing Natasha more, because it's all fairly in-character for Tony.
- Final Stand of Death: Marilyn Manson doesn’t hide the fact he’s evil, the evilest man in America, yet he remains calm and a gentleman. He often has kind discussion with the Los Boricuas while searching for Fusion Gundam.
- A Peaceful Afterlife: Most of HOLY DIVER's crew have an airy sort of good humor about them, but Moonshine is easily the most outright jovial. Be it his good relations with Cherri Bomb or his politeness towards Charlie, even when killing people he strives to be friendly.
- Shadows over Meridian:
- While Jade has taken back the title of the Queen of the Shadowkhan and decided to get retribution on the heroes for their actions by helping Phobos take back Meridian's throne and ruining the heroes' daily lives, she remains amiable with her comrades in the Knights of Vengeance, especially Raythor, allows them to continue addressing her simply as Kage, bargains Miranda and Cedric out of Phobos' service to give them a fresh start out of sympathy, is a Benevolent Boss to the Phobos loyalists under her command, shows leniency to enemies who understand to surrender before angering her too much, and convinces Phobos to take the throne back by winning his people's support through Pragmatic Villainy instead of going on a wanton rampage.
- Tyrian, for all of his insanity and bloodthirstiness, is very amusing, sincere in his worship of Jade, reciprocating of Rosetta's interest in him, and can be friendly, if mischievously and exasperatingly so, most of the time.
- New Vegas Showtime: The convict Makoto interacts with in Primm is a former NCRCF inmate that broke out of the facility, probably took part in the assault of Primm, and tried to mug Makoto the moment he saw her, but once he realized she's a Fish out of Temporal Water, he hands her wallet back and gives her advice on how to reach relative safety. Unlike his colleague, he also doesn't try to hit on her.
- A Knight's Tale as Inquisitor: When Arturia and Dorian are sent back in time, they meet the latter's ancestor Magister Remerien Pavus, who is an high ranking Evil Sorcerer in a corrupt society built on brutal slavery and highly dangerous that would hunt the world of Thedas to the present day. He's also very understanding and welcoming to the two and aids them in returning back to their original time. He even takes in a would-have-been slave and her child as a servant in his household that was saved by Arturia.
- In Negaverse Chronicles, the Negaverse version of Gyro is portrayed this way. He will be perfectly polite to anyone he talks to, will show his blueprints when asked, offer gifts or a share of the profits to his fellow criminals, but he also intends to steal Scrooge McDuck's money and doesn't have a problem with the idea that his invention might kill someone.
- Dance with the Demons: Ra's Al Ghul may be a monster who intends to wipe out ninety percent of the world's population, but his manners are impeccable. He's unfailingly polite and respectful at all times.
- C Listers:
- Harley Quinn. She's friendly to pretty much everyone, serves as Firefly's therapist, and takes Polka-Dot Man out on a spa day to help with his low self-esteem.
- Polka-Dot Man. He's a shy, kind dork and probably the sanest of the C-listers, but he's still a supervillain and it's mentioned he's killed people in the past.
- Chaos from the Tamers Forever Series isn't actually evil but still, for a ten billion-year-old avatar of destruction and disorder, it's remarkable just how normal he seems.
- While the Daleks in The Bugger Anthology are still as murderous as ever, the anthology depicts them as highly chatty and possessing a sense of humor. At one point some Daleks apologize to the Doctor for not being more hospitable, while Dalek Bernard Ponsoby is pretty friendly with Leo as it possesses him.
- The suave, elegant, collected Master of The Road to Shalka, who treats the Doctor's companion to a glass of juice and a story about how Three beat him at fencing. He also plots relentlessly and spaces people, although it's not someone we'd like. He flat-out says there's just nothing for him to gain by hurting Jasmine, and that's why he doesn't.
- Several of the villains of Dragon Ball Z Abridged, including Nappa, Zarbon, and (especially) Ginyu. Cooler is a particular example, given that his brother Freeza is Faux Affably Evil.
- Perhaps the most affably evil villain is Perfect Cell. Despite plotting to murder the entire planet, he seems to actively like Goku and is generally friendly to anyone who hasn't given him a specific reason to want dead.
- General Harkon, King Cold's second in command in Inheritance tries to avoid sacrificing his men and when facing the Z Fighters, offers them a position in King Cold's army, citing the good pay and benefits along with the fact they'd rise in rank quickly with their power. Even when they refuse, he doesn't take it personally, admitting that he didn't expect them to accept.
- Epiphany: Sephiroth is still evil, but he's impeccably polite and even willing to help Aerith out...if he has nothing better to do.
- The singer (presumably Golden Freddy) in MandoPony's song Just Gold. They speak calmly and politely, referring to you as "the Main Attraction" and saying that "your story must be told", and offering you "eternal scrapyard immunity". Not quite so charming when you remember that these guys are trying to STUFF YOU INTO AN ANIMATRONIC SUIT..
- Also applies to the singer of another song by MandoPony, Survive the Night (who seems to be speaking for the animatronics). They're friendly, polite, and just want you to be happy- while warning you that they'll kill you horribly if they get the chance.
- Mike's New Ghostly Family:
- Nightmare is a ruthless, vicious, and sadistic demon lord who relishes in torturing damned souls and preying on humanity's fears and black truths that they dread. While any politeness he normally displays is initially false, but when a human he confronted proves to be genuinely worthy of his respect, he will display genuine cordiality and respect in turn; such is the case with Mike Schmidt. And after Mike was able to impress him with gruesome Cold-Blooded Torture he performed on William Afton, especially given how dedicated Mike normally is to following the path of good, Nightmare was so impressed that he bestowed upon Mike an infernal blessing that would allow him to counter William Afton in case the murderer would ever return back, and gave him warrior's salute, the closest he displays to acknowledging someone as an equal, and even gave Mike ways to easily access him in case of need.
- Nightmarionne, one of Nightmare's demonic right-hand men who shares his position with Nightmare Fredbear, is also a sadistic and malevolent demon who enjoys torturing damned souls. However, he's also a genuinely friendly, cheerful, and humorous guy who enjoys playing games (and not just of a "vicious, sadistic mind games" kind), to the point that he joined the ghost children in Mike Schmidt's mental world in playing a recreation of Trivia Murder Party, with no malicious strings attached.
- Abraxas (Hrodvitnon): Mariko observes that two of Alan Jonah's paramilitary Western Terrorist henchmen, Tejada and Sergeant Travis, are okay people to hang around with despite their jobs and allegiance — indeed, Tejada, though not sensitive, is shown to be very capable of Villains Out Shopping and Villainous Friendship, and Travis seems like a pretty normal person before his Sanity Slippage. Mariko herself can be considered Affably Evil: she got her colleagues killed by releasing Behemoth during Ghidorah's Mass Awakening in an act of Well-Intentioned Extremism, but she seems and acts pretty normal and genuinely sociable the rest of the time, and she firmly draws the line at Jonah and his mercs' inhumane treatment of the resurrected-as-half-a-Titan Vivienne Graham.
- Zirah from the Good Omens fanfiction The Sacred and the Profane is kind, always smiling, and would kill a baby just because it was crying. Even if said baby is The Antichrist.
- The fic Home Is Where the Haunt Is features the OC antagonist Patrick Mason, who is very polite and formal... until he loses his temper.
- In the musical Harry Potter parody, A Very Potter Musical:
- Quirrell and Voldemort sing, dance, pick up girls, and watch She's All That in between plotting to murder Harry. Oh, and one of Voldemort's Horcruxes is a Zac Efron poster.
- The Dementor shown returning Quirrel's civilian clothes was also quite nice.
- The sequel has Lucius Malfoy and Dolores Umbridge. The former avoids walking at nearly every opportunity, preferring instead to show off with increasingly complicated ballet moves; Umbridge comes off as an odd mixture of Southern Baptist preacher, yandere, and drill sergeant. And she's played by gorgeous Joe Walker note .
- In Harry Potter and the Portrait of What Looked Like a Large Pile of Ash, the Death Eaters, for all the narration says that they "looked bad", behave nicest out of anyone in the story and are actually kind of adorable when interacting with one another.Death Eater 1: "I think it's okay if you like me."Death Eater 2: "Thank you very much."The first Death Eater confidently leaned forward to plant a kiss on his cheek.Death Eater 2: "Oh! Well done!"
- The Guile of the Traveller's Gellert Grindelwald speaks to his prisoners as if they'd been invited over for dinner, sends candid photos of a group of hostages to a colleague of theirs who he coerced into spying for him and spends much of his spare time singing along with Muggle music, the Andrews Sisters being a particular favorite.
- Leonard from Hazbin Hotel: Lucifer's Folly. While he may be a demonic dignitary who can seriously kick your ass with his fiery blade and combat skills, he's very polite and kindly to one and doesn't hold any ill will towards his enemies per say, as he only attacks if he's ordered to.
- The Grand Highblood of Hivefled is always very civil when Leaning on the Fourth Wall, even while subtly threatening to rape the readers to death.
- The New Adventures of Invader Zim has a few examples:
- In contrast to Zim, Skoodge is, as Dib points out, such a nice guy that it's sometimes easy to forget that he's an alien soldier dedicated to conquering planets.
- Unless he's angered, Norlock is always unfailingly polite, even when he's about to kill someone.
- Nyx is pretty genial and happy-go-lucky for a Mad Bomber utterly devoted to someone like Zim. Similarly, Ying is unfailingly polite but dutifully serves as Nyx's Battle Butler enforcer.
- In Queen of All Oni, Jade's personality is more or less the same even after her Face–Heel Turn, other than having fewer morals (and wanting revenge on Tohru for becoming Uncle's apprentice instead of her). For example, when she has Ozeki attack Section 13, she gives him specific orders to NOT kill anyone, and she broke the Dog Talisman to make Scruffy immortal again, for no apparent reason other than pampering her pet. Also, she pays the Enforcers regularly (and apparently it's a lot of money), and doesn't torture them like Shendu and Daolon Wong did, and even AFTER she gave Chow the code-name "Bonkers" for suggesting they rename one of her plans, they STILL feel that she's a better boss than Shendu (probably better than any boss they had in canon come to think about it), so much so they agree instantly on it.
- Monsieur Verde is also pretty affable. Though considering he's loosely based on Dr. Facilier, that's to be expected.
- Kuro's such a nice and polite guy, you almost forget he's a demon General.
- There are a couple of examples in The Lion King Adventures:
- King Hapana seems very friendly on the outside. Until you find out that he likes cutting animals open to find out how their biology works.
- Amri is very friendly towards new arrivals. But if a Pride Lander shows up, then watch out. She only harbors a grudge towards the Pride Lands residents in her first story, though.
- In Uplifted most of the high ranking Nazis act like this.
- Bringing Me To Life: The albino twins who in their appearances are rather polite, as well as the twin who waves at Max after trying to shoot him and Trinity.
- In Crimson and Noire, when Alec Cataldi is akumatized into Mulitman, he mainly uses his power to handle the various shows he was tasked to host while also spending time with his daughter Manon. Even after being exposed as an akuma, he remains polite and requests Crimson Beetle and Lady Noire to come to the studio, only wanting to take their Miraculous to uphold his deal with Monarch.
- Le Papillon Rising has Adrien as Papillon...but also as Adrien. He's not easy to hate.
- Nathaniel from Miraculous: Tales of Scarlet Beetle & Ikati Black remains polite and friendly as the supervillain Monarch, always kind to his kwami Nooroo and often akumatizing those that had faced injustice. Of course, harming his friends and classmates is a good way to get on his bad side.
- In Perfection Is Overrated, Meiko Moriya might be pretending to be Mai's friend but remains relatively courteous and polite to her after Mai blows her and Bachiko's cover by realizing that they weren't friends. She even apologizes for being relatively familiar with someone she's just met, and goes from calling her "Mai" to calling her the more polite and formal "Tokiha-san".
- In Walk a Mile in Another's Shoes, a My Hero Academia fanfic, All for One frequently gives Izuku gifts, takes him out for dinner, and offers suggestions on how to improve his quirk while trying to convert him into a villain.
My Little Pony: Friendship Is Magic
- Beyond the Wall: The villagers are kind, friendly, peaceful ponies...as long as you're not from outside the wall, for which you will be executed without hesitation, because Gaea doesn't love you, and life without Gaea's love is a torture that only death can free you from. And if you're a villager and try to go outside the wall, you will also be executed without hesitation to ensure that your body remains in the village forever and Gaea still loves you.
- Friendship is Witchcraft has, naturally, canon Friend to All Living Things Fluttershy, who still keeps most of what makes her adorable in the actual series, even trying to talk Rarity out of donating her sister's college fund to the local Religion of Evil, finally giving in at Rarity's insistence. And accepting the money; who do you think is a cult leader?
- Distraught from My Brave Pony: The Movie has no problem holding parties and serving ice cream to the very same ponies that he plans on destroying.
- The Pony POV Series has second Big Bad Princess Gaia/Nightmare Whisper, who is unwaveringly polite to the Mane Cast (including Trixie), even when they're fighting. Which is to be expected — she is still Fluttershy, after all.
- In Dark World, Rancor, Discord's little sister, is a Friendly Enemy towards the mane cast despite the fact she's one of Discord's Co-Dragons and a Blood Knight who is looking forward to her turn to fight them. She does things such as asking Rarity for her autograph (she's a fan of Rarity's past life, Melody), commending them on their fights, and even giving Apple Pie the last pages of a comic the Valeyard used in a Break the Cutie on her, revealing it was a Bittersweet Ending and not a Downer Ending for seemingly no other reason than to Pet the Dog. And while she is vicious when she actually fights them, she spends the majority of the fight talking to them politely. And hitting on Spike. Justified as she's a Punch-Clock Villain who has no actual grudge towards them and is only doing this because her father told her to.
- In the PONY.MOV series, we have (yet again) Fluttershy! It seems that every time Fluttershy is portrayed as a villain she's depicted as this, although that's hardly surprising when you consider how she is in canon. To drive the point home, she never even swears (whereas the others are shown to all curse like drunken sailors) not even after she snaps and becomes a chainsaw-wielding psycho!
- In CRISIS: Equestria, Lord Silvertongue is extremely polite and formal with all of his employees... so long as they're on his good side. He doesn't tolerate failure very much, though, and has a habit of brutally punishing those who fail. The lesson of the day: do a good job!
- The Dogfather from Diaries of a Madman prefers to be polite and well-mannered with those he encounters, despite his status as a crime lord.
- The Apprentice, the Student, and the Charlatan has both Lord Silverblood and Sombra, though the former loses it when Nova pushes his buttons.
- Princess Dinky from Bad Future Crusaders is well-liked by her followers for always being pleasant and even chatting with them from time to time, despite "the nasty rumors surrounding her".
- Fluttershy, again, plays this role in The Abundance. As one of the "Five Queens Of Harmony", she will spread true harmony all over Equestria...by brainwashing ponies into being obedient and kind, and she tries to be the most reasonable one of them all. Trixie, however, deconstructs this; Fluttershy is completely delusional and the only reason she is kind is that she doesn't want to engage in the horrible acts of the other Queens, she just sits back and watches. To Trixie, that makes her the worst one.
- Played for laughs, in the short Fan Fic series Evil Belle. Sweetie tries to sell her soul to a demon for a new demonic form, only for said demon to turn out to be a really mellow guy. Who is not even interested in her offer, and tries to explain that neither of them really has much to gain from this. Only for Sweetie to keep pestering him, until he reluctantly agrees.
- The human Chrysalis in Integration, the sequel to Aftermath of the Games. When the fourth guy who attempted to kidnap Human Twilight runs and leaves his fellow Changelings behind to be captured by the police, Chrysalis doesn't punish him for aborting the mission. After Adiago escapes, she gives the two guards who were overpowered the next two days off while warning them about not failing her again. While she does blame the door guard for not properly checking the I.D., she gives him the opportunity to make up for his mistake by recapturing the siren, but she threatens that he'll kill him and his family if he tries to run.
- From her appearances in Hecate's Orphanage of the Blooming Moon Chronicles, Melinda the Sky Witch could be seen as this. She even offers advice to characters like Moonflower and Thorn Blackfeather. However, she does still remain an antagonist, and many of her actions do hinder Cadence and her team.
- Beyond the Wall: The villagers are kind, friendly, peaceful ponies...as long as you're not from outside the wall, for which you will be executed without hesitation because Gaea doesn't love you. And if you're a villager and try to go outside the wall, you will be executed without hesitation, so that your body remains in the village forever and Gaea still loves you.
- In A Growing Affection Doraku explains to a captured Naruto, Hinata, Sakura, and Lee that A) He is a demon. B)He enslaves people and steals people's abilities by drinking their blood C) He isn't a vampire D) Would they mind telling him about the world's current situation over dinner?
- It should be noted he told them to try to escape over dinner too.
- In Gender Confusion, it's difficult to distinguish who the bad guys really are until one of them actually goes out and commits a canon atrocity... and then you still need to remind yourself that, yes, they were the ones in the wrong.
- Elias Dreschner from Kintsukuroi is always polite with his secretary, appreciates fine tea, and likes to listen to classical music while performing horrifying experiments on captured mutants. Before doing this, however, he makes a point of introducing himself to them and explaining why their sacrifice is necessary to further medical research.
- In Persona: The Sougawa Files, Yuudai Honda is a businessman working for the biggest crime lord in the city who wants to turn everyone into mindless husks, yet he's always friendly and rarely actively malicious. It helps that he has a genuine desire to see the city improve.
- In Ancienverse, Dalton tends to treat Ash and Seamus quite kindly when he's not trying to kill them.
- Brave New World:
- Admittedly, while Tarantulas may seem like a total psycho, he does have the occasional gentlemanly side with the patients he's horribly mutilated. It's mostly based on his mood.
- Oblivion's Shadow also has shades of this. He's fairly notable as being the most polite, well-mannered, and reserved person in the entire series. He's fairly comparable to Deoxys from Latias' Journey, except that he has shades of being a Well-Intentioned Extremist.
- Barbedo is, unusually for this trope, not an antagonist; he was the most vicious and monstrous pirate to ever live, and he got worse after he and his crew were cursed with immortality. To everybody's surprise, Barbedo's friendly enough to Team Aurabolt when they meet him, handing over the Star Badge animating him without any fuss, agrees to a fight for his ship and takes his defeat to Tiny in a drinking contest with good humor. He's unapologetically brutal and loves being the worst sort of pirate, but his friendly demeanor and fondness for his crewmates make him likable in spite of that.
- If you can get past the fact that Ford is a sinister creature who has taken fighters and been draining their powers over the course of years, he's really nice and charming.
- Drake, leader of the Ouroboros Society from Power Rangers GPX SIU. Very polite and praises the Rangers, calling them a Worthy Opponent, but is still up to something...
- Proctor of Boy Scouts ½ is genuinely kind and friendly, but because he is Justy's loyal servant, he always ends up on the opposing side of the main characters.
- A Rabbit Among Wolves:
- When not engaging in violence, many of the White Fang's soldiers are quite amicable toward each other. It's hard not to fall into this when Adam is a standard.
- Sienna Kahn can also be polite to those who are respectful in return, provided they also get results too.
- After accidentally killing Adam, Jaune develops this reputation In-Universe. People see his genuinely pleasant demeanor and acts of charity as tools to manipulate the public.
- Ruby and Nora: Corbin Branwen is the leader of a Bandit Clan, but he held his wife’s hand while she was in labor, was heartbroken by her Death by Childbirth, and seemed to have been a kind father to his children, even if he wanted them to continue the Branwen tradition. None of this stopped Raven from killing him to take control of the tribe from him.
- Aunt Salem.
- Nora and Ren become Salem's loyal followers. While they are their hyperactive and stoically respectful selves respectively, they are perfectly prepared to commit any atrocity to defend the Cult of Salem.
- Salem is portrayed as a genuinely loving family woman with a deep affection for the Arc family, but she's still the Queen of Grimm who is not to be trifled with, as Cinder finds out.
- Vernal is a ruthless bandit but is a pretty friendly captor to Jaune.
- Service with a Smile: Vale's criminal underground, as it turns out, can be very polite and genial to people they like. Jaune, having opened an excellent café with excellent service, manages to get on their good side. Even Cinder is very polite and appreciative to Jaune- but she will still not hesitate to kill him if he gets her in a way.
- White Sheep (RWBY): Salem, Cinder, and the rest of her minions, while still antagonistic, are more genuinely friendly and polite than in canon. Pyrrha is taken aback when Salem's "evil plans" involve giving her a decent lunch and sharing with her Jaune's baby pictures.
- War of Remnant: A RWBY Anthology:
- Cinder, thanks to some Adaptational Nice Guy, is far more polite and mature, being a Benevolent Boss to Emerald and Mercury and being a loving girlfriend to Emerald.
- Emerald herself is friendly and chatty with the Beacon students and dislikes Mercury’s jerkass attitude towards them and others.
- Neo lacks her smugness and sadism from canon and allows Weiss and Blake to pass when Yang offers to fight in their place on the train during the Breach.
- Queen Beryl is this in Beautiful Destroyer Sailor Moon. The first time we see her, she's messing with a tablet PC dressed like it's Casual Friday at the office, talking about running the Dark Kingdom like it's a business conglomerate. She's not even very disagreeable about how Jadeite's operation in Japan has been royally screwed over so much. Immediately after her meeting with Jadeite, she remembers she hasn't had sex in forever, then decides to go out for the night and get laid after prodding her Youma court for a bit of encouragement.
- Sebastian Moran is portrayed this way in this Sherlock fanfic. When he isn't acting as Moriarty's hired gun, Moran's a friendly guy who's nice to little old ladies and likes dogs.
- Speaking of Colonel Sebastian Moran...
- Presented as Faux Affably Evil in The Ghost Map and A Study in Regret, in both cases as he's speaking with/gloating over Holmes.
- Given more screentime and made a bit more complicated in Mortality. He's a Villain with Good Publicity as well as Standards (and can even snark at his boss, Professor Moriarty.
- A few are present in Forum of Thrones
- Samuel Harrington is by far the most honourable of the Solvers. Though he is a no-nonsense sellsword who Would Hurt a Child without hesitating, he only reacts in such a way when provoked and later reveals himself to have plenty of sympathetic traits, from his tragic backstory, to his surprisingly firm sense of honour. His eventual Heel–Face Turn is a logical consequence to this.
- The Burned Man is affable to such a degree that it is debatable if he even qualifies as evil at all. Of course, he still is an unrepentant criminal, although his methods are noted to be fairly reasonable and his ultimate goal is considered noble by many characters.
- In Darth Vader: Hero of Naboo, Darth Plagueis flip-flops between this and Faux Affably Evil, depending on whom he's speaking to. Vader is caught off-guard by just how likable the guy is.
- Tarkin's Fist: Admiral Aveo Yos, the commanding officer of Tarkin's Fist, is a stern, but fair commander who earns the respect of the men and women under his command. He is friendly with members of his immediate command staff and is a doting father to his daughter Phasma. The Imperial task force he finds himself responsible for requires a large amount of manual labor to establish its infrastructure, industry, and agricultural base on Mars; without which they will not survive without backsliding technologically. Yos's solution? Start a war with Earth, killing billions, taking millions as slaves to build the new Imperial economy. So far as Yos is concerned the lives of people outside the Empire are of no matter. Conquering the Earth removes a potential rival and helps with their labor shortage.
- Dimentio in Clash of the Elements
- Jewel of Darkness: Guerra is a pretty friendly person when he's not hired to fight you, and he tends to be rather polite, complimenting people he views as putting up a good fight.
- In Black Wings, Black Sails, William Laurence comes to be known as the "Gentleman Pirate", thanks to his respectable clothes and rumors that he's the son of some noble. Less well-known is the fact that he's unfailingly polite at all times, even when he calmly slits a slaver's throat- the same slaver from Empire of Ivory who would have gone on to sue Laurence for £10,000 in canon for cutting his slaves loose -which serves only to make him all the more terrifying.
- For all their virtues, the protagonists of Centre of Attention are a criminal gang. Played straightest with Gwen, who quits committing crimes once she has the money to attend art college.
- Luminosity's lower-ranking Volturi are all like this. The worst is Jane, who is best defined as amoral—if she hits you with her power, then she looks at you funny if you scream.
- In The (Not So) Short Second Life of Bree Tanner and its companion piece, Ashes through an Hourglass, Alec from the Volturi comes across as charming, insightful, and sympathetic, without betraying his more villainous tendencies like manipulating Bree, showing a general indifference to human life, and casually plotting and rationalizing murder.
- The larger portion of reader reviews consider Alec not just amusing and appealing but actually persuasive in his outlook on being a vampire, which is almost always in stark contrast to the noble ideals and humane lifestyle of the Cullen family.
- In Turning Red: Secrets of the Panda, unlike Jason, Howard Mitchell's kindness is actually genuine, and prefers talking as opposed to violence to get information from people. He also rarely lies to anyone (with the only exception being when he masquerades as Xia's assistant), as shown when he tells Abby that he won't harm Mei unless he has to.
- Better Bones AU: Silverhawk is a genuinely nice cat, contrasting with the rest of Thistleclaw's clique, but he still ended up in the Dark Forest for a reason and is a willing supporter of Thistleclaw and Tigerstar, both of whom have ruthless political ideologies and want to take over the Clans.
- A Tale of Transmigration: Rune, despite being a Nazi, is a frequent poster on PHO who enjoys taking selfies and posting them for people to see.
- A Darker Path: Atropos, the most terrifying killer in Brockton Bay, is downright bubbly and forthcoming on PHO, and even meets up with a fan for selfies in the park.
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- Kyrio Streika, from New Dawn. He is always polite, always serene, never once raises his voice or even curses. He is always friendly and even helpful to Matthew and company, which makes sense, given Matthew is his son. He is a devoted family man, despite having difficulties that he came across during his occupation of choice. He also happens to be rather like Sousuke Aizen in several ways, including being very disturbingly violent in contrast to his eloquent words and actions, and having plans within plans, effortlessly manipulating most everyone he comes across and killing the rest, all for the good of his dear son.
- Gravity Falls Rule 63: Bonnie Gleeful. She's a very sweet lady, even when she's killing you with her own two hands.
- Doli Incapax Horse Lawyer: The killer Sugary Sweet is cute and affectionate to just about everyone around them, calling them by terms of endearment. They never get angry and show genuine concern for the third party who ends up getting suspected of the murder and try to get them declared innocent while still hiding their own guilt.
- Symposium Of Supremacy: Mammon is a golden dragon in a business suit who acts chummy around Zarc and is willing to shell out money to a dying school out of amusement. He's also one of eight powerful Devils who has enough power to crush Zarc into paste.
