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Main Affably Evil Discussion
Kersey475: I nominate thatthis image
be the new picture for this page (I have no idea how to upload images onto tvtropes so could someone else please do it).
be the new picture for this page (I have no idea how to upload images onto tvtropes so could someone else please do it).
The Mandarin usually is almost never polite, and usually comes across as a ranting Arrogant Kung Fu Guy, or Klingon type. I vote he be removed from this section.
Just like with Wicked Cultured and Complete Monster, I think it would be better to remove the Real Life section.
Cut this:
- * Tony Todd as William Bludworth, the funeral director, in three of the five Final Destination movies. He's far from an enemy to the protagonists whenever they wander into his funeral home (he even says in the first film he didn't mind them walking in on the dead after they fall through the funeral home's roof), but as a funeral director he deals with death, the actual antagonist of all five movies.
Cut this:
- * In the original Gaston Leroux novel The Phantom Of The Opera, Christine expects the Phantom to rape her during her abductions, but he actually has the decency not to do so. This after he has murdered a number of innocent people, especially via his penchant for hanging traps; declared that he owns Christine; and other not-so-nice things.
Complete Monster + Affably Evil = Impossible. Just saying.
One of the defining traits of the Affably Evil character is a degree of genuine niceness - which overrides the Complete Monster requirement of having no altruistic traits.
Of course, there's nothing to stop a character being a Complete Monster and Faux Affably Evil.
I find the distinction between Affably Evil and Faux Affably Evil quite blurry and confusing. Just how do we know a villain is being genuinely nice or just pretending to be so? I believe a lot of villains here are more like Faux Affably Evil.