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• Basic Trope: The character is mean and nasty, but the actor behind that character is not.
• Played Straight: Evil Elliott is played by an actor that happily chats with fans and loves playing in the backyard with his kids.
• Exaggerated: Evil Elliott is a Complete Monster, but the actor that plays him is so nice it's almost scary.
• Justified: There's a difference between on-set and real life; just because a character is mean doesn't mean the actor is.
• Inverted: Nice Character, Mean Actor
• Subverted: Evil Elliott is played by an actor who is not mean, but also not very sociable.
  • Evil Elliott's actor seems nice enough... but when he makes a convention appearance, a vicious side to him comes out.
• Double Subverted: But when that actor is with his family and/or close friends, he's very nice.
  • ...Because he's hamming it up for the fans, who love watching him be a bad guy.
• Deconstructed: ???
• Reconstructed: ???
• Parodied: Evil Elliott rapes the Love Interest to The Hero and brags about it, but off the set, the actor apologizes to her and buys her a nice dinner.
• Zig Zagged: Sometimes the actor in question is nice, sometimes he's mean.
• Lampshaded: "He may be a villain on the set, but when the cameras are off, he's the nicest person I've ever met!"
• Averted: Evil Elliott is a cartoon character from a silent cartoon.
  • Evil Elliott is played by an actor who is a complete Jerkass.
• Enforced: The director wanted the betrayal of Elliot to be extra-shocking so he cast an actor who was not only typecast for pacifists but also an incredibly nice philanthropist.
• Invoked: Hoping to shake his image as a jerk, Elliott's actor starts being extra-nice off the set.
• Defied: In order to maintain Evil Elliott's Big Bad image, the actor becomes a complete jerk.
• Discussed: "In real life, Bob would never act like Evil Elliott. He's just too nice."
• Conversed: "It's really unnerving, seeing Bob change from a really nice guy to the monstrous Evil Elliott when he is being filmed. He does do the part well though."