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Bitches in Sheep's Clothing in Video Games.- Dr. Bumby in Alice: Madness Returns is a creepier example. He pretends to be a caring doctor, but in reality he's a short-tempered psychopath who uses his profession as a front for brainwashing children and selling them into prostitution. It's also revealed that he started the fire that killed her family, blamed her for it, and raped Alice's sister after she rejected him. He's revealed to be the Big Bad at the end of the game as well, causing Alice to slowly lose her mind so he could gain from her insanity.
- Luca from Ar tonelico II: Melody of Metafalica. Harvestasha in the sequel, very Moe in appearance and has a very squishy voice, but doesn't hesitate in disabling her trusted friend in an attempt to wake up a Physical God.
- Given the lighthearted nature of the series, Pamela from Atelier Series is a Played for Laughs case. Well, she's not evil, but some things she does are not very...nice:
- In Trinity Universe, she more or less states that she does those things only because that's how ghosts are supposed to behave. She genuinely is dense to the point that she doesn't realize what she does can be construed as 'evil', and all she really wants is a friend to play pranks on. Even when she goes uber-creepy and helpfully hopes you'll die soon, it's only because she thinks that way you can have fun being ghosts together with her.
- Dame Caterline Demaiou from Aviary Attorney is the elegant bourgeois daughter of a wealthy businessman, seemingly falsely accused of murdering a colleague of her father's. After the court case is over, and her innocence is 'proven', she reveals that she actually did murder the man she was accused of killing in order to increase her father's share in his train company. She shows no remorse about killing a man and framing another for the crime, and is a Karma Houdini in 2 of the 3 possible endings for Case 1… For a while. In a later case, she ends up getting murdered herself.
- Baldur's Gate II: Aerie comes across as the sweet, innocent Woobie of the group for most of the story, but gods help anyone in a romantic rivalry with her. It's telling that Jaheira, whose status as a short-tempered Tsundere is the stuff of legend, has the clear moral high ground when the two of them fight over a male player character.
- Batman: Arkham Origins: In the "Cold Cold Heart" DLC, Ferris Boyle has good enough PR that he wins the Wayne Enterprises Humanitarian Award and fools Batman, the world's greatest detective, into thinking he's a kind-hearted Honest Corporate Executive. In reality, he's a sociopathic monster who's even worse than his Batman: The Animated Series incarnation. He makes a deal with Victor that he will help him find a cure for Nora in exchange for him developing cryo-weapons, personally assaults Victor when the latter realizes he has no intention of honoring his bargain and refuses to cooperate with him any further, kidnaps Nora (all the while claiming she's his property as a cryonic test subject), sadistically taunts a helpless Victor about how he will kill Nora in front of him before killing him, just so he can see her slip away, all the while bashing him in the head, and attempts to kill Batman even though the latter saves his life just so he can erase all evidence of his crimes.
- Tsubaki Yayoi of BlazBlue... sort of. Her polite, prim and dutiful nature is genuine, but she secretly harbours an unhealthy attraction to Jin and it occasionally leads to some startling behaviour. She's too three-dimensional to openly call her a bitch or a nice gal, but she has qualities of both.
- In the near-endgame of Bravely Default, it's revealed that Airy was working for the main antagonist of the game, and was following the party in order to convince them to purify the crystals, which would, in fact, do the exact opposite of saving the world, which is what Airy had been telling the party.
- Crescent Prism: Count Chroma initially seems to be a gentlemanly tourist in Merryday Village, but he's actually an Ax-Crazy villain who will stop at nothing to obtain the power of the Prism Stones. While he will show politeness towards his minions at first, he's also quick to kill them out of rage simply for being late in implementing his plans.
- Darkstalkers: B.B. Hood/Bulleta. Well, hopefully. If it's not just an act, she's even more Ax-Crazy than she seems, which is saying a lot.
- In Disciples 2, Uther first appears as The Chosen One who will save the Empire from ruin. The first hint that he's not the Messianic Archetype is the way he cruelly mocks the Dwarven King's grief over his lost son. During his coronation, Uther drops all pretense by murdering his father the Emperor with hellfire and summoning demons in the heart of the capital. He then reveals his true demonic form and his goal: to conquer Hell itself.
- Amadia, the goddess of magic in Divinity: Original Sin II presents herself as the kind and motherly one and a Token Good Teammate to the rest of her Fantasy Pantheon. However when you visit her shrine in Act I of the game, the slightest verbal misstep causes her to curse it in a fit of rage, murdering a pilgrim you direct to it in a later quest. It's revealed later on that she's just as much of an asshole as the rest of them, as she manipulated and lied to Fane regarding the fate of the Eternals in order to hide her role in it.
- At the beginning of Dragon Age: Origins, Queen Anora seems like nothing but eye candy for King Cailan, and, after his death, became the justification why her father Loghain should be the regent in the absence of a king. Towards the end of the game, you have to rescue her from a castle where she is kept against her will by her father. Once you have saved her, it turns out that she had been running the kingdom all the time. The fact that her father arranged for the death of her husband seems not to bother her too much, but she isn't going to let him take away her kingdom. She agrees to marry her late husband's half-brother Alistair to strengthen her claim as the queen, but only under the condition that she keeps running the show and he is going to be only for show. If the player allows her to remain in power and doesn't kill Loghain, she even goes so far as to try to have Alistair executed so he's not a threat to her rule despite his insistence that he just wants to leave. However, the player can potentially marry her if playing as a male human noble and she treats him rather warmly afterwards.
- Sister Petrice plays one in Dragon Age II as she manipulates events in order to start a war with the Qunari.
- In Dragon Age: Inquisition, Empress Celene of Orlais is always courteous to the Inquisitor and projects the image of a peaceful High Queen. The prequel novel The Masked Empire shows that she's a scheming manipulator who makes Anora look nice. She justifies her actions as being for the good of the Empire, but murdering thousands of her subjects (all elves) just to keep them from being used by a rival is not the kind of plan a good person would even consider, let alone put into action. Neither is faking an assassination attempt on herself, a farce that caused the deaths of all her servants, including her lover Briala's parents. While none of the potential candidates the Inquisitor can support to rule Orlais are wholly good people, Celene is arguably the most morally repugnant of them all judging by her actions. But she's always very polite.
- Dragon Quest IX has Mayor Bryce, who runs the struggling Port Llaffan. While he treats Jona kindly, acting as a surrogate father for the recently orphaned girl, he's mainly interested in abusing her ability to summon the great whale, Leviathan. When she says that she's not comfortable overusing that power, he immediately replies, "Well, it's not like you can do anything else for us, useless girl." It's not simply a matter of helping their village survive, either; he keeps her summoning to the point where everyone completely abandons their fishing as useless. And even before she developed her power, when they were honestly struggling to survive, he still wouldn't let anyone else use his private fishing hole...better described as an entire coastline.
- Vault City mayor First Citizen Lynette in Fallout 2 appears a nice, civilized woman at first. Talking to her at length will reveal her as a self-righteous temperamental bigot who won't hesitate to banish you from the city if you challenge her opinions. Word of God is that she was intended to embody the absolute worst traits of Vault City's residents, brought about by a comfortable, privileged upbringing that resulted in a massive superiority complex to others.
- Jeannie May Crawford in Fallout: New Vegas, who despite initial impressions that she's just a nice old lady is discovered during a quest to have sold Boone's pregnant wife to Legion slavers... and made sure she got paid extra for the fetus.No-Bark Noonan: I don't trust a man that doesn't have something strange going on about him... 'cause it means he's hiding it from you. If a man's wearing his pants on his head, or if he says his words backwards from time to time, you know it's all laid out there for you. But if he's friendly to strangers and keeps his home spick-and-span, more often than not he's done something even his own ma couldn't forgive.
- Clanden appears on the surface to be a normal, friendly man but is in fact a brutal Serial Killer who makes Snuff Films of his victims.
- Final Fantasy XIV: Teledji Adeledji seems like an ally of the Scions of the Seventh Dawn, offering aid to the Doman refugees during the Seventh Astral Era quest chain leading up to the events of Heavensward. But not only are they using the unrest as an excuse for Ul'dah to take over Carteneau Flats so they can steal Omega Weapon and conquer Ul'Dah themselves, they go so far as to frame you and the other Scions for poisoning Sultana Nanamo.
- Friday Night Funkin': Senpai at first glance acts charming and affable when you first square off against him. After you beat his first song in Story Mode, however, he instantly gets angry and delivers a Freudian Threat to Boyfriend.
- Athena in the God of War series. She plays The Mentor role for most of the first game, and in the third, though posthumously, only to reveal her true nature after Zeus is killed. When Kratos sacrifices himself to release Hope to all of humanity, Athena wails, "You fool! That was supposed to go to me! The mortals won't know what to do with it!"
- Downplayed, as it's implied that this applied to God of War III only. The box's evils infected the others so it may have influenced her as well. She also states that becoming a ghost caused her to "see the bigger picture" so it's quite possible that she only fell prey after death and may have genuinely cared about him in games one and two. Hell, Zeus himself flat out states she refused to betray him.
- GreedFall: The odd hermit who helps you complete the ritual in the swamp is eccentric and scatterbrained, but friendly nonetheless. It turns out he's helping you because completion of the ritual would summon a Nadaig to maul De Sarde and company. De Sarde and the party kill the Nadaig in self-defense, and the hermit appears again, furious and screaming curses and threats at the 'murderers'.
- Halo's Prophet of Truth comes across as polite and affable at first to the rest of the Covenant until he tries to commit genocide against the Elites, becoming crazed and hysterical by the end of Halo 3.
- Halo 3: ODST: The lone NMPD Officer that the Rookie meets in the underground Datahive seems like a regular officer at first glance that gets killed once you unlock the second stack blocking the way down to Sublevel-9 of the Datahive after jumping down it, unless you collect all 29 Audio Logs and then you find out that he's actually a rotten Dirty Cop sent in to confirm Dr. Endesha's death from the argon chemicals that filtered through the level he was on, flash freeze-killing the poor good doctor, and also to make doubly-sure that no one knows about it. Needless to say, no one shed any tears from the corrupt NMPD asshat's death.
- Scott Shelby in Heavy Rain comes across as a nice, compassionate detective, who even rescues a suicidal mother and looks after her baby, but is actually the Origami Killer.
- Hiveswap has a couple:
- Dammek was shown in promotional materials to be a chill cool kid a la Dave Strider, but in reality he's a Domestic Abuser to his moirail Xefros, and is just as casteist as the highbloods he claims to be fighting.
- ACT 2 gives us Zebruh Codakk, who claims to be on the side of lowbloods... except for the fact that he still refers to them as gutterbloods, and is most likely pretending to be tolerant of lower castes to mack on Oliveblooded females. This is somewhat justified in that he's a parody of the stereotypical Internet nice guy.
- On the surface, Cirava Hermod appears to be a mellow stoner with an affinity for Vaporwave. However, as revealed in Hiveswap Friendsim, they are actually an immensely self-centered Jerkass who will belittle you for the most nominal of mistakes. Again, this is somewhat justified in that A.) they are a massive middle finger towards much of the fanbase, particularly the part that frequents Tumblr, and B.) they've had nothing but False Friends throughout their life, who at one point tried to turn Cirava in to be used as a living battery.
- Mary from Ib is one. At first, she appears to be a visitor that became lost in the art gallery like Garry and Ib, but she's actually a living painting who is willing to trap them there so that she'll be able to escape to the real world.
- Nur-Ab-Sal from Indiana Jones and the Fate of Atlantis is the spirit of an Atlantian king who Sophia claims as her spirit guide. Indy, as a scientist and a cynic, is less inclined to buy into the mumbo-jumbo of the spirit world... though, through his guidance of Sophia and various displays, Nur-Ab-Sal proves to be quite real on more than one occasion... real, really controlling, and really bad news. You initially think that Sophia is just protective of her necklace because she refuses to trade it or remove it, but gradually, with the right dialogue — especially in the team version — you realize that it's Nur-Ab-Sal who's possessive of Sophia. Upon reaching his "throne room" in Atlantis, he finally fully reveals his true colors by possessing her completely, claiming to Indy that the time for human frailty has passed, and dooming her to die there as his vessel.
- James Tobin from In the 1st Degree. He seems like a nice guy who got caught in a bad situation at first. However, it will become clear that this is only the image he is trying to project, as he is trying to not be found guilty of murder and grand theft. Luckily, he is not very good at projecting this image. In fact, if you play the game right, you'll be able to make him lose his cool completely, and then he will show himself for what he is right in front of everybody in the courtroom.
- Judgment has Yoji Shono, who seems like a harmless but weak-willed scientist who is easily pushed around by his corrupt superiors. Then it turns out that he's actually the mastermind of a major conspiracy around the AD-9 drug, and that he framed Shinpei Okubo for murdering both a dementia patient, then his own girlfriend, all to save his own skin. Furthermore, he's also responsible for carrying out illegal human experiments with AD-9 on yakuza in Kamurocho.
- Lost Judgment: As this game deals with high school bullying and some of the mean bullies go about to present themselves as innocent, a few characters are shown to be much worse than they initially appear.
- The Plot-Triggering Death is of a man named Hiro Mikoshiba. Outwardly, Mikoshiba was a model student who was well-liked among his peers. In reality, he was a Barbaric Bully who relentlessly harassed one of his classmates, Toshiro Ehara, until the classmate committed suicide. Mikoshiba eventually became a student teacher and launched another bullying campaign against one of his students, Mami Koda, before he was kidnapped and brutally murdered by Toshiro's father, with help from a Knight Templar vigilante.
- Yui Mamiya was the victim of a sexual assault while on her way to work, and everyone (including the defendant's lawyers) shows her a great deal of sympathy for all she's been through. The it turns out that Mamiya was in on it the whole time; her former teacher, Jin Kuwana, blackmailed Mamiya and others into assisting him with his murderous Bully Hunter crusade, and the sexual assault was set up to provide their latest "client" with an alibi. Furthermore, Mamiya is revealed to have been a pretty nasty bully herself back in high school, and her only regret from that time was that Kuwana found info to blackmail her with rather than that she helped drive a kid to suicide with her and others' bullying. Yagami is far less sympathetic to her afterwards.
- Michaela from the RPG H-game "Monster Girl 1,000" looks and acts like a saintly soul devoted to helping others. The truth, however, is that she uses that facade to conceal her true, gleefully-sadistic nature
◊ whenever allowed to terminate potential "troublemaker(s)" for her Goddess Eris, which is what befell poor Yulia's previous boyfriend when she tore him to pieces.- Eden is another fine example, albeit less outwardly-friendly than Michaela is, but altogether looks to be the chief example of a well-respected administrator of the Magic Weavers' academy. Until she drops all pretenses of "caring" about it after the damage that the Scarlett Tears group inflicts upon it is done and straight-up abandons her administrative role at Magic Weaver's, showing her cold, unfeeling colors just like Michaela. The only times Eden isn't a stuck-up bitch is whenever the male MC is around/involved due to how precious he is to her goddess Eris' sick plan, which she immediately drops after the MC openly rebels against her malevolent goddess in either of the routes.
- Kirby:
- A recurring minor enemy named Tick has this as a gameplay motif: if Kirby is on the same level as it, it will put on a happy face and be non-hostile. If Kirby is above it, it will change to a malicious expression and attempt to stab him by extending the needle on its head.
- Marx appears as any other Dreamland inhabitant with his cutesy appearance and is as concerned about day and night cycles falling into chaos as Kirby is. Not only is he a Manipulative Bastard who is causing it, but he steals a wish from Kirby to take over Dreamland before leaving the hero to die and serves as the Final Boss of Milky Way Wishes in Kirby Super Star.
- Atris, from the second Knights of the Old Republic. She even wears white. Despite her crappy attitude, she presents herself as very much holier than thou; the quintessential perfect goody-two-shoes Jedi. In reality, she has turned to the dark side and caused countless innocent deaths. Executive Meddling caused the extent of her evil acts (causing the destruction of Katarr, the extinction of the Miraluka, and the death of hundreds of Jedi just because she loved and hated the Exile) to be cut from the finished game. If anything, she's a unique case in that she has no idea how bad she was until she's shown.
- The Legend of Zelda: The Wind Waker: Tingle is perky, cheerful, and near-sycophantic when talking to Link, but if you talk to Ankle (the guy in pink), he reveals that he's Tingle's younger brother, and Tingle is incredibly abusive, but on days when you visit, he's so much nicer (he does not, however, specify if "so much nicer" is enough of an improvement for Tingle's behavior to qualify as "nice" on its own)! If you talk to David Jr. (the guy in white), you find out he's not even related to Tingle; he's just some poor schmuck who happens to look like Tingle and washed ashore one day after a boating accident, and Tingle has been forcing him to do menial labor ever since.
- LunarLux: General Saros presents himself as a benevolent hero dedicated to protecting the people of Luna. He's also surprisingly lenient towards Bella despite her sympathy towards the Murks. It turns out he's the one turning people into Murks for the sake of his antimatter experiments. He only tolerated Bella's dissent as a gambit to have her gain the trust of the Murk Slayer, giving Saros an opportunity to follow the two of them to the Murk Slayer's anticore collection.
- Mercenaries: Chris is one of the few heroic examples. While he comes across as a generally chill and affable dude at first, it soon becomes evident that he is far more cynical and amoral than he lets on. Basically, he divides the world into three categories, corrupt leaders, idiot followers and people like him, who play both sides to carve a path for themselves. While he doesn't go out of his way to be an asshole to people, he doesn't really have a kind word for anyone except himself, and is, in spite of what people believe, not really a better person than trigger-happy fatalist Mattias Nilsson or blatantly self-serving and hedonistic Jennifer Mui.
- Paz from Metal Gear Solid: Peace Walker. She introduces herself as a sweet college student longing for peace in her beloved country, Costa Rica. Even after knowing that her "professor" works for the KGB, Snake decides to accept the mission just for the sake of this girl, because he thought that her feelings were genuine. But then she turns out to be the game's final boss when she steals YOUR beloved Metal Gear ZEKE, pilots the damn thing in her underwear, and tries to blast you with a railgun. She actually works as a triple agent for the KGB, CIA, and mostly Cipher the proto-PATRIOT. Thank God Snake then blows her ass out of the Metal Gear, into the ocean.
- Her actions also serve as a testament to how far Zero and the Patriots have fallen in the past ten years, as it's revealed that she was scared to death of failing them and considered inciting their wrath a Fate Worse than Death; indeed, her diaries reveal that she actually Became The Mask to an extent and wished she didn't have to do what she did.
- In Octopath Traveler, during Alfyn's Chapter 2, he meets a fellow apothecary named Vanessa Hysel who hands out medicine for free. In reality, it's meant to make the patients sick, so she can sell them a very expensive cure.
- In Octopath Traveler II, many people view Professor Harvey as an intelligent gentleman with brilliant magical theories. While his magic skills are real, Harvey is actually a petty, bitter Psychopathic Manchild who even some of the other villains think is insane.
- Juri Minesei of Omega Labyrinth Life is Belles Fleurs Academy's Idol Singer. To her fans and most everyone, she is sweet as sugar, unfailingly upbeat, and kind, but this hides a cruel, vengeful, and cynical side, of which Hinata is usually the only witness. Thankfully, Character Development occurs after her arc is done.
- Yaobikuni from Onmyoji, to the surprise of everyone. She's been genuinely nice and helpful for a good while before all of a sudden revealing herself as The Dragon to Yamata-no-orochi and nothing is going to stop her from awakening and setting him free.
- Captain Shannon from The Orion Conspiracy. He seems to be a nice guy, giving a eulogy to Danny, Devlin's son, and letting Devlin say something at the funeral. He seems to care very much about the crew (notwithstanding some hostilities between him and the engineer Meyer), and is a little condescending towards Devlin, on the grounds that Devlin is middle-aged and Shannon is in his prime. Shannon also seems to be rather anal about the rules. Then, when Kaufmann is murdered, Shannon blames Devlin for the murder, ignores Devlin's protests of innocence, has Devlin imprisoned, and decides to cover up the murder, keeping it between himself, LaPaz, and Ward. So you would think, what a sleazy guy, right? Then Devlin and Shannon have a confrontation later on and it is revealed that Shannon blames Devlin for the death of Shannon's wife, so he murdered Danny as part of his revenge, then he murdered Kaufmann to frame Devlin, and now he is going to murder Devlin. Now that is a Bastard in Sheep's Clothing! Good thing Meyer intervened before anything else happened.
- Prince Fleaswallow from PaRappa the Rapper seems like a normal, but eccentric shopkeep obsessed with love at the local flea market. However, if you actually pay attention to his lyrics, he seems to have a god complex, be on the run from the police, and only cares about making money. It's also implied the merchandise he sells is stolen, and that he'd be willing to steal someone's entire business.
- Persona:
- Shuji Ikutsuki in Persona 3. He seems like a cheerful and friendly Reasonable Authority Figure at first glance, with an endearing love of bad puns, but in reality, he's manipulating the heroes into killing the Shadows in order to bring about the Fall and destroy humanity. He shows his true colors the night after the last Full Moon Shadow is destroyed, and tries to sacrifice the protagonists in order to hasten The Fall.
- The culprit in Persona 4, in the Normal/True playthrough. Tohru Adachi combines this with Obfuscating Stupidity, pretending to be a dumb but well-meaning detective. In truth, he was killing people for the pure hell of it after finding out he could get away with it, because Adachi thinks life is meaningless.
- The Man Behind the Man might be a more subtle example. Izanami is a goddess who gives people incredible power and sits back as two of them endanger the lives of innocent people, and ultimately ends up trying to kill you. Her disguise? An androgynous, and relatively friendly gas station attendant.
- Saki Konishi, the girl Yosuke had a crush on, plays with this. She appeared to be pretty friendly towards him as well. In the twisted Shopping District area of the TV world, echoes are heard of Saki despising and resenting Yosuke all along. However, Yosuke acknowledges that while it may or may not be true that Saki hated him (Shadows tend to exaggerate a person's feelings/thoughts), she was still a good person and he continues to remember her fondly.
- In Persona 5, Madarame is the only one of the Phantom Thieves' targets who acts this way. Unlike the other targets, who are openly hostile to the Phantom Thieves right off the bat since they trust their influence to protect them, Madarame at least pretends to be nice and personable on the outside. He has several "logical" excuses prepared to cover his tracks if exposed, and it's only when the Thieves keep pressing the issue and forcing their way past his facade that he finally drops it. This is part of why Yusuke has such a hard time understanding the truth and why he takes it so badly once Madarame's crimes are exposed.
- Mika, Ann's fellow model, isn't outright evil, but she's a Manipulative Bitch who snipes at Ann, then uses Crocodile Tears and her acting skills to make Ann look like the bad guy. She's even underhanded enough to fake emails to cause other models to get the wrong time for their shoots, enabling her to take their place and advance her own career, even weaseling out of punishment by giving a fake apology when she's caught.
- Goro Akechi embodies this - his whole pleasant manner is a facade, and when he drops it, boy, does it show.
- In "Pokémon Mystery Dungeon: Explorers Of Time, Darkness, And Sky", we have Dusknoir, a warm and kind-hearted Pokémon who is willing to help anyone in need and protect others from harm and is also trying to stop the “evil” Grovyle from plunging the world into darkness and changing the future. It is later revealed that this was just a facade to keep the future in its current status and that Grovyle is actually a hero while Dusknoir is a villain.
- In Pokémon Sun and Moon, we have Lusamine, the president of the Aether Foundation. She had emotionally abused her children, Gladion and Lillie, conducted secret experiments on the Pokémon she "saved", froze them so they'd stay the same, and even secretly had the help of Team Skull, the organization Aether Foundation was supposedly against. It's also worth mentioning she has an obsession with Ultra Beasts, creatures from another dimension that are essentially the Eldritch Abominations of the Pokémon universe. However, there is the revelation that she was once very loving in the past until she gained contact with UB-01, also known as Nihiligo, whose Neurotoxins caused her to become what she is. It's ambiguous as to how loving Lusamine was before the effects of Nihiligo's Neurotoxins.
- Subverted in Pokémon Ultra Sun and Ultra Moon, where Lusamine has encountered the Ultra Recon Squad. They end up recruiting Lusamine's help to deal with Necrozma, resulting in a case of Adaptational Heroism where her attitude becomes less It's All About Me and more Well-Intentioned Extremist. She's still blatantly abusive to people and Pokémon alike, but she's convinced that she knows what's best for everyone around her, despite numerous protestations.
- GLaDOS from Portal. She's the AI programmed to take care of the facility, but she killed all the staff members on Take Your Daughter To Work Day.
- Wheatley from the second game is one as well. After getting plugged into the Aperture mainframe, he quickly goes mad with power and betrays Chell.
- Purgatory (RPG Maker): Emma acts nice and supportive to Enri, but is only friends with her because she is easy to manipulate. Subverted as of the sequel, where she becomes nicer.
- Elisa, one of Dream Couriers in Puyo Puyo!! Quest. She acts cutesy in 4* and 5*, but not so much in her 6* rarity, where she shows a more disgruntled side to her. Turns out she's upset that her dreams aren't actually coming true because the recipients don't put in the effort in fulfilling them in the first place.
- RealityMinds:
- Kvena seems like a Friendly Ghost who wants to help Silvana and Astrake. She turns out to be the one who forced Silvana to attack Arkeld and she later reveals that she resents Silvana for reminding her of her past self and failing to exorcise her.
- Downplayed with Rasheed. A lot of his laid-back demeanor is an act and he can be ruthless if he suspects someone of being a criminal, but he's still a well-meaning soldier who wants to learn more about his country so he can do his duties as a prince.
- Resident Evil:
- Albert Wesker in RE1 is The Leader of S.T.A.R.S and while he’s aloof and stoic he still seems to care greatly for Jill, Barry, and Chris. Towards the end of the game, however, he reveals himself as The Mole for Umbrella and has set everything up as a slaughterhouse for his teammates who really cares little for. In later games as Big Bad Wesker barely puts up any pretense and psychotically tries to kill Chris and Jill at any given opportunity.
- Ada Wong in RE2 when she first meets Leon is very polite and seductive making the rookie police officer trust her, she’s actually a spy who does everything for personal gain and has used and betrayed multiple people. In RE4 Leon knows Ada works for the aforementioned Wesker so distrusts her despite his feelings, though she helps him out throughout the game and only turns on him when he’s got the Dominance Plaga in his hand.
- The Resident Evil 2 (Remake) really plays this trope up with Ada who pretends to be an FBI agent and when she gets injured half through Leon’s scenario and pulls the Wounded Gazelle Gambit so that Leon will help her out. In the tram scene when Leon is reluctant, Ada kisses him so that he’ll be more willing to grab the T-Virus sample for her which is far more manipulative and cruel than anything she did in the original game. Later when Leon who knows the truth and won’t hand the T-Virus sample over, Ada pulls a gun on him, though as Leon correctly guesses she doesn’t have in it her to shoot him.
- Jessica Sherawat from Resident Evil: Revelations who takes Jill’s role as Chris’s partner is very bubbly and flirty. It’s revealed towards the end of the game she’s a double agent for TRICELL along with Raymond Vester.
- In the Scooby-Doo video game Scooby-Doo, Who's Watching Who?, one of the suspects in the Sugarland level is the current owner of the Sugarland candy corporation Sylvester Sweetsugar, real name Edgar Norbert Diffendork. For PR purposes he pretends to be a nice guy, but in reality, he's quite ill-tempered and mean.
- SLAMMED!: JJ and Griss/Giana, who pose as your friends and then stab you in the back. Though the former is just trying to act out a Batman Gambit, and the other is just being dragged along for the ride.
- Sly Cooper
- Constable Neyla in Sly 2: Band of Thieves gives off the impression of a friendly Interpol agent who aids the Cooper Gang in the first three chapters. But then she seemingly reveals herself as a Knight Templar by refusing to help Sly and Murray fight Rajan, leading to their arrest. By the end of the game, it's revealed that she's an immoral sociopath who exploted everyone to gain Clockwerk's hate-fuelled immortality.
- Sly Cooper: Thieves in Time gives us Penelope, who, in contrast to the Nice Girl façade she puts on in the previous game, turns out to be a Manipulative Bitch of some magnitude, whose plan is to use Bentley and Le Paradox to make a fortune in weapon designs and "change the world", while also planning to remove Sly and Murray from the equation out of spite.
- Levin, aka the third World Eater Raksha, from Soul Nomad & the World Eaters combines this with Obfuscating Stupidity and spends most of the game pretending to be a good-natured goofy moron. Disturbingly enough, while he isn't good-natured or moronic in the slightest, he still comes across as a little goofy when Trish confronts him. This is also one of the rare cases where, depending on Relationship Values, the person in sheep's clothing can end up Becoming the Mask.
- SpongeBob's Boating Bash introduces Seymour Scales, a seemingly kindly boating instructor who wants to help SpongeBob get his driver's license. In reality, he's a con man who tricks him into taking phony classes so he can scam him out of his money.
- Numnu from Suikoden Tierkreis, although this is usually Played for Laughs. He might seem to be a cuddly, adorable Porpos-kin, but he is also good at putting people into troublesome, or even outright dangerous, situations.
- Dimentio from Super Paper Mario is a polite, almost perpetually-smiling court jester who pretends to be on the side of the heroes. Then, he tries to destroy reality.
- Mimi also fits this trope, although she drops the "nice" facade within a few minutes of meeting Mario (when he breaks her vase). The player knows she's evil from the get-go, though, and she pulls a Heel–Face Turn at the end.
- And in Paper Mario: The Thousand-Year Door, there's Grubba, who acts nice to Mario for most of the chapter, but turns out to be a total bastard who's been using the chapter's MacGuffin to drain the life energy out of people later.
- Tormented Souls: The seemingly kind and helpful Father Noah is actually the lunatic leader of the Pollux Sect and the man behind all the nightmares at Wildberger Hospital.
- Transistor: Sybil Reisz has this as one of her few given personality traits, apart from her massive crush on Red.
- Flowey from Undertale is a cute little flower, and the first character you meet in the game. He poses as a tutorial character, happily telling you to catch his "friendliness pellets" with your SOUL. The "friendliness pellets" turn out to be bullets, your HP gets knocked down to one, and Flowey calls you an idiot for falling for his tricks before trying to murder you before Toriel knocks him out.
- Until Dawn:
- Josh at the beginning of the game is a very cheerful and upbeat guy despite his sisters Hannah and Beth disappearing and being presumed dead after Hannah was pranked and humiliated and Beth chased her out into the night. The truth is however Josh blames all his friends for the prank and torments Chris, Ashley, and Sam by pretending to be a masked killer. Though Josh still manages to be very sympathetic as it’s shown he has severe depression and schizophrenia being tormented by horrific hallucinations of his sisters.
- Ashley can be this depending on the player's choices (including not being sympathetic when she and Chris speak of how Hannah reacted the night of the prank and/or when they find a projector that shows the prank on Hannah), showing a surprising nasty streak that leads to letting Chris die if he tried to shoot her earlier with the gun when neither knew it was filled with blanks.
- Even if she's played as a nice girl, she still gets a moment of this when she insists that the group kick Emily out of the basement, knowing that there are Wendigos out there. While that can be chalked up to believing in the actual mythological idea of Wendigo bites turning their victims, she can still be this anyway by deliberately neglecting to share the information with the group.
- If you are sympathetic to the conversation with Chris after the dollhouse, Ashley's honesty stat will go down, suggesting she is lying and may not actually feel bad about what happened (or at the very least, feels that what happened to Hannah is also Hannah's fault as she suggests if you choose the dismissive option).
- Randy from Valkyria Chronicles II qualifies. He's the ideal student council president, comforting those who are down and out and helping old ladies across the street. And then you bring him into battle...BANG BANG BANG PLOP. "How unfortunate." The whole nice guy thing was just a facade so that he could set himself up for a leadership role. God help you if he perceives you as a threat to his role as a leader and the center of attention.
- Season 3 of The Walking Dead has Joan, one of the leaders of the New Frontier. On the surface, she appears as a kindly old lady who bakes cakes in her spare time and is unaware of the crimes committed by those under her. In reality, she's a ruthless monster who organized raids on peaceful settlements, usurped control from David, and justifies her crimes by saying that she didn't want to lose anyone else after their last bad winter. She even almost sounds sarcastic when "apologizing" to David for being responsible for his daughter's murder.
- King Radovid from the Witcher series. In the first game, he presents himself as a friendly Reasonable Authority Figure, though his connections to the Church of the Eternal Fire and its subsidiaries in the Order of the Burning Rose and Salamandra imply he's been making power plays on Temeria. In the second, he's a ruthless bastard who tortures people and takes every opportunity to expand his domain, but his actions are still mostly rational. By the time the third game comes around, he has shown his true colours as a murderous, gibbering lunatic who makes the invading Nilfgaardians look downright benign by comparison.
- The Witch's House: The True Ending reveals that the silent girl you've been playing as this whole time is actually the eponymous witch, who, prior to the start, was befriended by the legless girl who's been chasing you throughout the game. She assured her that, despite her illness that kept her housebound, she did have a friend and someone who loved her. Ellen, the witch, asked Viola, the girl, if she'd be willing to trade bodies for the day, just as a brief reprieve from the horrible pain her illness gave her. Viola agreed, but Ellen had no intention of giving her body back. To render Viola incapable of getting her own body back, Viola had gouged out her own eyes and cut off her legs, so that once they switched, Viola would find herself crippled, and after the switch, gave her a potion disguised as medicine that burned her throat, which is why she's only been able to gargle at you. This whole time you've been unknowingly helping the villain to get away scot-free by escaping the mansion and condemning an innocent girl, who only wanted to be kind to her friend, to an agonizing existence and tragic death when she's shot by her own father, who didn't recognize her in Ellen's body and thought she was a bleeding, rotting monster.
- Even though Joshua from The World Ends with You seemed like a rude little snot, he also looked like a generally nice guy. Even going as far as to "Sacrifice" himself for Neku He just seemed like a nice, slightly lonely kid... He wasn't. He was secretly the Composer, who had been using Neku THE WHOLE TIME, and was fully intending to destroy Shibuya. Oh, and that sacrifice I mentioned earlier? All part of his plan.
- In World of Warcraft Cataclysm, it turns out that Hope Saldean, the kindly adopted daughter of the Saldean farmers who cares for the people of Westfall, is actually Vanessa VanCleef, who seeks to revive the Defias Brotherhood and avenge her father's death.
- All of the Bullies from Yandere Simulator. They're a very popular clique and are thought to be honest and trustworthy, but they're really complete bitches who nearly bullied a group of students into suicide prior to the game (causing them to become the Delinquents), and can actually bully someone into suicide if their reputation is lowered enough during the game (i.e. if you gossip about someone too much). The Student Info for the bullies states the different ways that each pretends to be a good guy, and the ways they're really horrible (Kokoro pretends to oppose bullying but in private does it herself, Hoshiko pretends to be positive but really only thinks negative things about others, and so on).
