Bitches in Sheep's Clothing in Comic Books.
- Berrybrook Middle School: Zeke appears meek and cute at first, but he's in fact a nasty womanizer who can't seem to stop getting on Jorge's bad side.
- Many a story in girl's comics like Bunty, Mandy, Jinty and Tammy had a character like this. It was usually The Rival, but sometimes the main character had this sort of personality.
- Captain America: Now that he has been corrupted by Red Skull, Captain America. Especially now that he has been manipulating everyone in Civil War II.
- If Dreamkeepers' Tinsel doesn't qualify, with her deceptive nature, manipulation games, inner cruelty, and absolutely evil personality, then it's hard to imagine who does.
- Dynamo5: In public, Captain Dynamo/William Warner boasted a public image as the greatest superhero in the world. In private, he was a habitual womanizer who cheated on his wife Maddie and fathered numerous children, even when it compromised his crime-fighting duties.
- Eight Billion Genies: Ernest Hemingway initially presents himself as the gentlemanly scholar-poet "Papa" upon arriving at the Lampwick. A few drinks later, Ernest is ranting about how his whiskey glass has run dry and calls Will a son of a bitch whose "shitty cantina" could be bought for a poem Ernest writes onto a napkin.
- Elsewhere (2017): Meyrick, an elderly member of the tribe who appears to just be a parental figure to Cort and Tavel turns out to have given a member of the tribe named Gwenore to the US Government who experiment on her against her will. Upon the discover of this, he is sent away from the group.
- Fables: Geppetto seems to be a nice old man, but underneath the exterior, he's ruthless, power-hungry, and an inveterate schemer.
- The Flash: To a degree. While many agree that Barry Allen is a Nice Guy, he's also done some downright horrible things due to selfishness and lack of consideration for those around him. The biggest offenders being Flashpoint and the end of Flash War, where the former resulted in the destruction of the entire Flash Family thanks to Barry's half-assed meddling in time, and the latter resulted in Wally having a complete mental breakdown thatnote was believed to have resulted in over 15 people dying and trying to kill himself to make up for it. In both instances, Barry has expressed some form of regret but has yet to do anything to truly make up for his actions other than apologizing which he gets away with because he's a Nice Guy.
- Grimm Fairy Tales:
- Patricia Otts, who initially came off as a kind, helpful woman who gave Belle her equipment and patched her up after a battle turned out to be a sociopath who lured Belle's mother into a trap (that resulted in her being halfway turned into a Medusa and warped into an evil version of herself, as well as indirectly leading to Belle's adopted brother Alex being turned into the Beast).
- In the Sleepy Hollow mini-series, a college prank goes wrong to kill a young man and transform him into the Headless Horseman. After taking bloody revenge on the jocks responsible, the Horseman uses his powers to discover his "loving girlfriend" had been using him from day one just to get access to tests so she could sell them for money and was sleeping with the head jock responsible, including in bed together joking on "have to go bury my boyfriend." That makes her the last victim.
- Amy from Heck was the seemingly kind-hearted old high-school flame who paid Heck to deliver a letter to her husband in Hell. Her husband, as it turns out, had been sent to the lowest circle of Hell for embezzling money from his company. When Heck reads him the letter, we learn that Amy was behind the embezzling scam, and only sent the letter to her husband in order to find out where the money was hidden, not caring about her husband's eternal torment.
- Iznogoud tries to be this toward the Caliph. He is terrible at it, but the Caliph is so oblivious it still works anyway.
- Dean in My Faith in Frankie. Although he gives the excuse of being in Hell for ten thousand years during the day he spent dead, the very fact that he ended up in Hell implies that he was actually always like this, and now he just has a focus and outlet.
- The Outsiders: Indigo of Outsiders (2003) was a strange variation. She started off as a seemingly-homicidal robot, then got "reformed" into a cute Robot Girl, before finally being revealed as the latest incarnation of Brainiac.
- Rick and Morty (Oni): Mr. Hapsburg comes across as a kindly old man who loves horses, but like Rick, he abandoned his wife and child then attempted to have his son Follow in My Footsteps without bothering to know if he wanted to or could.
- The Sandman (1989): Thessaly may look like a sweet young college-age girl, but in reality, she's a paranoid, millennia-old witch with a nasty habit of offing anyone who so much as annoys her.
- Shaman's Tears: Josh's friend Thom seems like a nice person when we first meet him. Issue #2 reveals that he's selling Medicine Hat Reservation horses to poachers and is jealous of Joshua being chosen for the Sun Dance. After he is mutated by Circle Sea's chemicals he outright tries to kill Joshua but T.C. being in danger causes him to snap back to his senses.
- Sonic the Comic: Surprisingly, Sonic the Hedgehog fits this trope. While he was hero-worshiped by all of Mobius as a fearless symbol of hope, he was actually a self-centered, immature Jerkass. This comes back to bite him in the ass in Sonic the Comic – Online!, where the sheep's clothing gets flung off and he ends up becoming a Hero with Bad Publicity. Once the public knew about some of his more questionable decisions that he made to try and save Mobius, all the Jerkass tendencies that people were willing to ignore made it easy for Grimer to convince the public that he was a villain.
- Venom: In Venom (2021), Meridius tries presenting himself as a friend to Eddie when they first meet in the Garden of Time, but Eddie quickly suspects something's up when the meet the other Kings in Black, and Meridius's nastier, disdainful side peaks through.
- Wonder Woman:
- Sensation Comics: When she first appears, Byrna is acting as a secretary at the Fair Weather Valley town meeting and voices her disgust at how childish the less likable people are acting. Then she's revealed as the "Snowman" who is tormenting the town.
- Wonder Woman (1942): Helen Alexandros (Silver Swan) became Diana and Etta Candy's roommate to befriend them in order to get closer to her sworn enemy Wonder Woman.
- X-Men:
- At his very worst, Cyclops (or at least a Darker and Edgier Anti-Hero in The Cape's clothing), in contrast to Jerk with a Heart of Gold Wolverine. Ignoring the complicated mess that is his love life, Cyclops tries to project the image of a wise and noble leader for mutants to admire while keeping dirty secrets from his teammates, such as the existence of X-Force, his personal mutant kill-squad. This is after he kicked Xavier out of his own home because he kept secrets from Cyclops. To be absolutely fair to Scott, he really thinks all of this is necessary to ensure the survival of mutantkind after the various disasters of the past few years — and he might be right. Still, at one point, Wolverine, X-Force's field leader, reminds Cyclops that his hands are just as dirty as any member of X-Force's since Cyclops organized X-Force in the first place and gave them their orders.
Keep in mind, for most of his decades-long existence, Cyclops has always been The Hero and a straitlaced example of a boy scout and a Cape, essentially the mutant version of Superman and Captain America. Even then, many people disliked him, simply because he was an authority figure contrasted with fan-favorite Wolverine, and also because Cyclops' relationship with Jean Grey stood in the way of their preferred ship. Back then, he was called a "jerk". With the new millennium, creators took a hotly debated decision to turn him towards a darker path, being the person burdened first with the continued mission of the X-Men, then with the survival of the mutant race after they were nearly wiped out. While this led him to make difficult choices, fans debate that while Scott's actions are sometimes questionable, Wolverine can be seen as hypocritical when he takes an attitude of anti-violence, repulsion to killing, and reluctance to getting mutant teens involved, since Wolverine is notorious for his blood lust, penchant for violence and for always having a kid-sidekick, such as Kitty Pryde, Jubilee, Armor, and X-23. - Mystique loves to act loving and caring just so she can twist the knife in and betray every single person who was foolish enough to trust her. Worse still, Mystique has no qualms about using her own children (Rogue and Nightcrawler)’s love to her own advantage, she’s even betrayed Sabretooth after sleeping with him. Cable (a time-traveler from the future) even mentioned that in his time, "Mystique" was used in much the same way that "Judas" is used now.
- At his very worst, Cyclops (or at least a Darker and Edgier Anti-Hero in The Cape's clothing), in contrast to Jerk with a Heart of Gold Wolverine. Ignoring the complicated mess that is his love life, Cyclops tries to project the image of a wise and noble leader for mutants to admire while keeping dirty secrets from his teammates, such as the existence of X-Force, his personal mutant kill-squad. This is after he kicked Xavier out of his own home because he kept secrets from Cyclops. To be absolutely fair to Scott, he really thinks all of this is necessary to ensure the survival of mutantkind after the various disasters of the past few years — and he might be right. Still, at one point, Wolverine, X-Force's field leader, reminds Cyclops that his hands are just as dirty as any member of X-Force's since Cyclops organized X-Force in the first place and gave them their orders.
- Zatanna: Zatanna rogue Nimue Ravensong is an openly Evil Sorceress that hangs out at Bad Guy Bars, but is introduced in Zatanna: Everyday Magic under the pretence to be a "dame in trouble" to lure Constantine into her house, when she then seduces and curses him. When Zatanna comes calling, she pretends to be helpful at first, but is just an act to catch Zatanna off guard.
