History AffablyEvil / Literature

* In ''Literature/HungoverAndHandcuffed'', Matamoros is a world class assassin who's unfailingly polite and friendly, and even buys the main character a sushi dinner to kill time while she tries to figure out a way to stop him.

* ''LightNovel/IveBeenKillingSlimesFor300YearsAndMaxedOutMyLevel'': The King of the Demons, Pecora, is polite, gentle, and kind towards allies and equals, like Azusa. {{She|IsTheKing}} is ''also'' mischievous, cunning, and outright ''evil,'' like the time she had Azusa unknowingly ''enslave'' Flatorte, the leader of the Blue Dragons, by asking Azusa to pet her horns--an act the dragons consider to be a sign of complete and utter surrender and subservience to another.

* ''Literature/JohannesCabal'': Zarenyia the [[HornyDevils succubine]] devil cheerfully admits that she kills people for [[BloodKnight fun]] and [[LifeDrinker sustenance]], but is cheerful and eager to make friends. She quickly becomes a trusted ally to Johannes and to his later compatriots.

* Creator/JamesEllroy's Literature/LAQuartet: Dudley Smith is a pleasant, charming, back-slapping LAPD detective with a kind word for everyone. He's also a CorruptCop and ManipulativeBastard engaged in an epic, decades-long struggle to seize control of the organized crime in Los Angeles. He's also very committed to his affability - he doesn't drop the wide smile and polite demeanor even when he's murdering folks.

* Creator/JamesEllroy's LA Quartet: Dudley Smith is a pleasant, charming, back-slapping LAPD detective with a kind word for everyone. He's also a CorruptCop and ManipulativeBastard engaged in an epic, decades-long struggle to seize control of the organized crime in Los Angeles. He's also very committed to his affability - he doesn't drop the wide smile and polite demeanor even when he's murdering folks.

* ''LightNovel/IveBeenKillingSlimesForThreeHundredYearsAndMaxedOutMyLevel'': The King of the Demons, Pecora, is polite, gentle, and kind towards allies and equals, like Azusa. {{She|IsTheKing}} is ''also'' mischievous, cunning, and outright ''evil,'' like the time she had Azusa unknowingly ''enslave'' Flatorte, the leader of the Blue Dragons, by asking Azusa to pet her horns--an act the dragons consider to be a sign of complete and utter surrender and subservience to another.

%%* Creator/YahtzeeCroshaw's ''{{Literature/Mogworld}}'': Baron Dreadgreave

* Creator/MinaDavis:
** In ''[[Literature/HungoverAndHandcuffed Hungover and Handcuffed]]'', Matamoros is a world class assassin who's unfailingly polite and friendly, and even buys the main character a sushi dinner to kill time while she tries to figure out a way to stop him.
** In ''Literature/AssholeYakuzaBoyfriend'', Matsunaga and Pointe are both extremely friendly, reasonably, and polite career criminals who are at least somewhat complicit in the illegal sex trade.

* The Misfit in the Creator/FlanneryOConnor short story "A Good Man is Hard to Find." In spite of being a violent criminal who [[spoiler: kills off the entire family of main characters in the story]], he is quite polite with them, apologizing to the Grandmother for his lack of proper attire. Before the story ends, she appears to see some good in him.

* Creator/JamesEllroy's LA Quartet: Dudley Smith is a pleasant, charming, back-slapping LAPD detective with a kind word for everyone. He's also a CorruptCop and ManipulativeBastard engaged in an epic, decades-long struggle to seize control of the organized crime in Los Angeles. He's also very committed to his affability - he doesn't drop the wide smile and polite demeanor even when he's murdering folks.
* Creator/BenElton's ''Literature/TheFirstCasualty'': Captain Shannon is the personification of what the corruption war can do to the human soul. He is convicted that his merits in combat and the horrors he experienced first-hand pardon him for every atrocity he commits, like raping indiscriminately or [[spoiler:murdering a WarriorPoet who got disillusioned with the war and was about to come out with it]]. He maintains a nonchalant and amicable demeanour most of the time, and apparently is sincerely devoted to the cause of victory and is concerned with the morals of his comrades in arms, at that.

* In Creator/RobertEHoward's ''Franchise/ConanTheBarbarian'' story "Literature/RoguesInTheHouse", Nabonidus courteously draws Murillo aside, to give him the box with the ear in it.

* Creator/StephenHunt's ''Literature/TheKingdomBeyondTheWaves'': For much of the book you're not sure if [[spoiler:Abraham Quest]] is good or bad, until they decide to destroy every sentient being on the planet who isn't [[spoiler:a follower of his]].

* Creator/StephenKing's ''Literature/TheDarkTower2004'': Some of the Devar-Toi guards, especially Trampas, are pretty nice and seem like good guys. It's easy to forget that their job is to essentially ''destroy the universe''.
%%* ''{{Literature/Krabat}}'': The miller

* Esme of ''Literature/TheWitchlands'' is very friendly towards Iseult and is honestly worried for her well-being. As a matter of fact, she acts like a typical BigGood mentor... apart from the fact that she enslaves hundreds of people and helps design a brutal conquest of the entire continent.

** In ''Welcome to Dead House'', the antagonists are friendly with the main characters except that they have to invite them over, especially Karen Somerset, who says she wants to be a nice person but everyone needs fresh blood to survive. Same with the TV version of Karen, who would actually be an AffablyEvil AntiVillain since she actually seemed reluctant to engage in the "feeding" that [[ImAHumanitarian everyone in the town had to do to survive]], repeatedly saying she wanted to be friends with Amanda and Josh.
** The creatures from ''The Beast Of The East'' just see it as an elaborate game and outside of that are quite friendly.

** Della from ''The Curse Of Camp Cold Lake'' half the time was a normal kid outside of being a bloodthirsty ghost.
** The plant clone father from ''Stay Out Of The Basement'' (more in the book than in the TV adaption) tried to be a good father even though he was ultimately out to turn everyone into plant clones, even comforting the kids when they worried about things.
%%** The kids from ''Ghost Beach''.

* Creator/SMStirling's ''Literature/TheDraka'': In ''Drakon'', Gwendolyn Ingolffsen is the eponymous villainess, and is quite nice and friendly for a member of a genetically-engineered master race who is attempting to reduce the whole human race of the parallel Earth she find herself stranded on to eternal slavery and degradation. She sees it as merely a necessary "taming" of "ferals". There are hints in the story (and others in the series) that she's actually quite mellow for a member of her species. In fact, all Draka are like this. As long as you accept that they're superior to you in every way and do what you're ordered to do, they'll treat you like a favourite pet. Cross them, though, and you'll end up with a four foot spike up you, as they point out to you how it didn't have to be like this, if only you'd obeyed without question. The ones who aren't like this end up in the Security Directorate. They'll stake a few of you at random just to show what you can expect.

* Creator/MarkTwain's ''Literature/TheMysteriousStranger'': The character of Satan/No. 44 is such a nice young man. Good people love him and all the villainous characters loathe him. Too bad he's just [[CosmicPlaything using everyone for a bout of fun, tormenting and creating for his own amusement.]] Well, probably. Let's not get into [[MindScrew the ending,]] shall we?

* ''Literature/KnavesOnWaves'' focuses heavily on a race between pirate crews, and as such features many examples. Carnage in particular takes the cake, being a crimson-skinned behemoth who'll happily crush your skull, but also invite you to dinner.

* ''Franchise/EvilliousChronicles'':