"We are the Canadian Borg. Resistance would be impolite. Please wait to be assimilated. Pour l'assimilation en français, veuillez appuyer sur 2."
—A Livejournal icon
- Worm:
- Despite his Well-Intentioned Extremist tendencies (which lead him to have one hero killed and risk blowing up an entire city on a gamble) and his incomplete fluency in English, the Indian parahuman Phir Sē proves to be quite personable (even funny).
- There's also Marquis, a supervillain currently incarcerated in the Birdcage, who cares deeply and sincerely about his daughter, and remained personable and polite even while he was bleeding out onto the floor.
- Psycho Gecko, the Villain Protagonist of World Domination in Retrospect, is a friendly and entertaining murderous lunatic. It helps that he likes wacky and bizarre evil schemes, like unleashing drugged up chickens in a restaurant or releasing the contents of a zoo to attack a superhero, but then he also murders a lot of people, including superheroes.
- In The Gamer's Alliance, Hannibal Losstarot is a teenager who flirts with girls, loves and respects his mother, takes his studies seriously, speaks politely, constantly trains with his elite guard, treats his servants and enemies well, often even preferring to not be called by his hereditary title. However, he is also the son of one of the BigBads and just as determined as she is to conquer the world under the Losstarot family's banner and will stop at nothing to make his mother's dream become a reality.
- Dr. Horrible is essentially the nerd who does evil things to be a part of the cool kid's club. He especially comes off as this when the "hero" of the piece is a total douche.
- Fawkes, leader of the Axis of Anarchy from The Guild.
- Troy the Wendigo from Epic Tales seems like he might fit this despite needing to eat humans. Which is interesting, since humans only become wendigos if they resort to cannibalism in the first place.
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ARG the real BBQ Girill is awfully polite and pleasant to our protagonist for being a horrifying hybrid of woman and barbecue grill who's part of a To Serve Man plot that said protagonist is trying to stop. - Lear Dunham, the Big Bad of Broken Saints, is pretty Obviously Evil, but he wants nothing to more than to befriend our heroes, and to share his vision of a brand new (and better) world. That is the reason he even explains his whole plan to them.
- Tales of MU (this): "Few people mistake a noble dragon for a nice one more than once."
- Dark General Argon from Sailor Nothing. He may be an utter monster and a heartless, but he is never impolite and seems to genuinely respect both the heroes and Cobalt for their drive and abilities.
- Ganondorf from Melee's End is polite even while kicking the good guys' asses.
- Malsumis from The New York Magician might pick up your bar tab.
- Elliott Blackwood is charming and sincere, but the utter lack of hesitation about the more...unsavory aspects of his duties puts him squarely in this territory.
- Humon's Neils is a good example of this. This Affably Evil, bisexual Dane is the nicest guy you have ever met! But if you get on his bad side, expect emotional torture and a bullet to the brain, or bludgeoning with a blunt object (courtesy of his black lover, Duncan). Although, he does try to comfort those whom he is about to kill.
- Chairman Nuke lives and breathes this trope.
- Whateley Universe:
- Dr. Diabolik: caring father, hard-working inventor, Benevolent Boss, and by his own daughter's count, directly responsible for taking the lives of over 17,000 people in his raids on middle-sized cities around the world. When he attacks Cincinnati, he secretly encourages the heroes to triumph over his weapons, and when highly stressful problems occur, he politely asks his minions for ideas and rewards them for speaking up. He has no problem teaming up with heroes when confronted with a common enemy, such as the Tong of the Dark Madonna or Professor Reaper. Still, he attacks entire cities, knowing that tons of people will be killed or injured.
- When Dr. Diabolik's children were the target of protestors and media outlets, he called each one of them up, at their homes, at their workplaces, on their mobiles... and calmly, politely, and non-threateningly explained to them that while he sympathized with them, attacking children over such a thing was a decidedly cowardly act. After that, the protestors just... went away.
- Brigand is a Byronic Hero in a world where that is likely to get you labeled a supervillain. He deliberately targets corrupt organizations and people, and on the occasion we see him, went out of his way to ensure that people with weak hearts in a hostage situation would be able to receive medical attention if necessary.
- Several of the instructors and professors at Whateley are ex-supervillains. They are often a lot more amiable than the ex-superheroes, especially Mr. Donner (Hotrod, teaching Auto Shop), Mrs. Ryan (Lady Hydra, teaching Costume Shop), and Imp (teaching Art and Art History).
- Jobe, an Unfettered sociopath with Blue-and-Orange Morality, often tries to be personable, but as Jadis (who is as close to being a friend of Jobe's as anyone gets) puts it, Jobe is even creepier when trying to be nice.
- Dr. Diabolik: caring father, hard-working inventor, Benevolent Boss, and by his own daughter's count, directly responsible for taking the lives of over 17,000 people in his raids on middle-sized cities around the world. When he attacks Cincinnati, he secretly encourages the heroes to triumph over his weapons, and when highly stressful problems occur, he politely asks his minions for ideas and rewards them for speaking up. He has no problem teaming up with heroes when confronted with a common enemy, such as the Tong of the Dark Madonna or Professor Reaper. Still, he attacks entire cities, knowing that tons of people will be killed or injured.
- The Lord of Angels and Demons, the Wicked Cultured Chessmaster of The Questport Chronicles.
- In Pay Me, Bug!, Commodore Mavis is a genuinely nice guy, who just happens to be a high-ranking officer in an empire run by telepaths.
- Don't Hug Me I'm Scared:
- The Sketchbook from the first video is quite outwardly friendly, and even when the Book gets mad it doesn't raise its voice. However, it deliberately bullies his students into falling in line with his idea of creativity and causes them to spiral into madness at the end of the video.
- Unlike the previous teachers, Shrignold and his friends are willing to answer the Yellow Guy's questions, and they do seem to want to teach him their version of love as opposed to knowing the real moral and intentionally twisting the moral to brainwash them. Except that their version of love involves joining a cult and feeding gravel to a giant head.
- This is a very popular interpretation of the Slender Man. Probably has to do with the fact that he wears a suit and is frequently depicted as almost entirely silent. After all, just because he's a stalking, kidnapping, implicitly child-eating Eldritch Abomination doesn't mean he has to be rude!
- The world of The Gods Are Bastards has this in spades. Well, evil is a strong word, but even characters whose goals and methods are pretty reprehensible, many of them are extremely charismatic and likeable. Naturally, this makes them all the more dangerous. Bonus points for Justinian, the Archpope and best candidate for Big Bad of the series, who has never said an unkind word about anyone on text.
- Agent Travers from Dawn of a New Age: Oldport Blues is part of the government force that wants to detain the newly empowered protagonists. Aside from that, however, she's a pleasant and cheerful woman. She even offers one of the protagonists some advice when she finds them in a self-deprecating slump.
- Longbox of the Damned: For the most part, Moarte is an entertaining and jovial ghoul who just likes to share horror comics with anyone who will listen. However, that doesn't mean he's to be treated lightly, as he's still a demonic being capable of tearing souls apart and eating people's flesh.
