Affably Evil / Web Animation

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• The Gentleman from Among Us Logic is clearly insane and regularly beats up Mr. Cheese for even speaking, but is almost always impeccably polite.
• Battle for Dream Island: Four. His funky manners sometimes compensate his sometimes downright sadistic antics, and plus there's the fact that he's an alien and probably has a very vague idea of basic social rules.
• In Diamond in the Rough (Touhou), both the final villains Yukari and Tenshi are educated, while the first hands presents to the gappies, the seconds clearly enjoys talking with them.
• Dreamscape: While Melinda has a smug and sinister attitude about it, she is very chatty and keeps a cool head, even when she is fighting. She'll even engage in some Snark-to-Snark Combat with characters like Betty and Keedran.
• In Grej, IngSoc despite being a would be tyrant who sees Nineteen Eighty-Four as not a warning but a guide is a nice enough character who has no qualms whatsoever about having those who don’t join him unpersoned.
• Helluva Boss: As to be expected, the Seven Deadly Sins are the most powerful and most dangerous demons in all of Hell, being in the weight class directly below Lucifer. However, two of the three Sins that were explored in depth^note  The other one being Mammon, who's Faux Affably Evil. wouldn't give that impression at first glance. For one thing, they both allow anyone regardless of their social standing to attend their events and establishments to have a good time, granted they don't take advantage of their hospitality. They also happen to be in genuinely loving relationships with their partners despite the distance in class.
  • Bee-Lzebub is a Nice Girl and an excellent party host but she’s also the Queen of Gluttony, with presumably all of which that entails. She's very clearly feeding off her guests' indulgences and gluttony, she just happens to not be a jerk about it. She also views her work as For Happiness, and discourages her guests from using her for Drowning Their Sorrows.
  • Asmodeus is a Reasonable Authority Figure who runs a Red Light District, since when Moxxie starts singing a love song, he gives the imp a chance to revise it into an Intercourse with You song even though Asmodeus could have easily done much worse. In the end, the worst he does to Moxxie and Millie is tell them in a deep, scary voice to "GET THE FUCK OUT!"
• If the Emperor Had a Text-to-Speech Device
  • Clancy, the Big Bad of "Bro Tip 40,000", is just a emphasisedly likeable, ordinary guy, except for the fact that he really wants to kill a Primarch (for no particular reason). He's also willing to inflict just as much collateral damage as it takes. Sorry about that.
  • Curiously inverted with the Star Child when he's visiting the Dark Eldar: he plays the trope completely straight except that he's good rather than evil. Since it's emphasised that he's a being of compassion and Incorruptible Pure Pureness, his affability is presumably genuine — but he's also perfectly aware it's literally killing the Dark Eldar, who are fuelled by suffering. It's presumably an example of Good Is Not Soft against irredeemably evil opponents, except that if it's genuine, he also genuinely regards them as his friends, so it seems also like a case of Double Think. Besides, they're almost okay with dying because Good Feels Good even when it's killing you.
• Lackadaisy has Hired Gun and Marigold Gang driver Nico, who never loses his easygoing smirk or friendly tone, even when greeting rival gang Getaway Driver Ivy with a jocular "Hi!" three seconds before trying to shoot her through the door she'd just slammed in his face.
• Llamas with Hats: Carl is this, at least toward his best (and likely only) friend, Paul (though likely no one else). He is extremely cheerful when talking with Paul and appears to value him as a true friend. That said, he is still a Serial Killer, much to Paul's chagrin.
  • It's severely deconstructed in the revival as it becomes clear Paul functioned as both part of his serial killer MO and a subconscious Morality Chain. The depths of Carl's insanity are revealed in the several episodes after Paul abandons him, culminating in Carl destroying all life on Earth, including, unintentionally, Paul. When Carl finds this out, he has a complete mental breakdown that ends in suicide.
• Medoner, of The Nekci Menij Show, is this — despite being totally self-obsessed and willing to publicly insult every friend she has in song, she is still seen as the height of pop culture.
• The Ranch Hand from episode three of Nomad of Nowhere is a low life Bounty Hunter, that is willing to threaten children to get his bounty, but while waiting for said bounty to arrive, he's also shown making small talk, telling jokes, and even sharing bits of his past with the people he was just terrorizing.
• Red vs. Blue:
  • Counselor Aiden Price speaks in a calm, monotone voice and is rather polite, even to the point of functioning as the Only Sane Man to the Director. However, the Counselor is downright ruthless when need be, such as when addressing Walter and using False Reassurance to disguise their true plans.
  • Chairman Malcolm Hargrove/"Control". While it's not made entirely clear if he's faking it or not, he always speaks in a polite tone of voice that only goes away if he's sufficiently pissed off enough and even then, usually in the form of Tranquil Fury. He is so good at this, he even came off as a Reasonable Authority Figure, before his true nature was revealed. Even when the BGC and the people of Chorus discover that he's Control, he doesn't lose his cool and calmly tells them that they can't leave Chorus.
• RWBY:
  • Although she slips occasionally, Salem is calm, friendly and polite, tailoring her behaviour to a person's personality, such as when she expresses gentle disappointment with Tyrian's failed mission, knowing his worship of her will leave him devastated over displeasing her. She chastises needless malice and patiently schools her subordinates whenever they turn on each other, such as when she patiently reprimands Watts for mocking Cinder's injuries. With the casual ease of a dinner conversationalist, she tasks her subordinates with duties that will enable terrorism, murder and mayhem, and teaches that flaunting the power to destroy lives is unnecessary when anyone can be exploited. She only drops her affable nature whenever someone challenges her authority. When Leo accidentally tells her she "must" act quickly to obtain the Spring Maiden before Qrow, Salem instantly has him partially strangled while she conversationally reminds him of how terrifying she is.
  • Hazel Rainart, one of Salem's direct subordinates, is always polite to people, even to his enemies (unless it's Ozpin). He genuinely regrets having to fight Nora and Ren, and he asks Oscar to forgive him before attacking him. He is also disgusted with Adam's cold murder of Sienna Khan, believing it to be pointless.
• Bowser from Supermarioglitchy4's Super Mario 64 Bloopers following his Heel–Face Turn in "Hotel Mario".
• Toho Kingdom Toons:
  • Godzilla himself is a city destroying monster, yet he is noticeably erudite and well-cultured.
  Godzilla: Why must we engage in such senseless violence towards one another? Especially considering the glaring fact that both of us face a common foe?
  • Anguirus as well.
  • Even Spacegodzilla falls under this. Despite being the one of Godzilla's most evil foes, he, somehow, is able to host his own political talk show.
• In Ultra Fast Pony, Applejack is a mobster with absolutely no qualms about getting her hooves dirty, yet she's cheerful and friendly to anyone she isn't threatening at the moment.

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