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* George Wickham in ''[[Pride and Prejudice]].'' He is described as quite charming and "amiable", which causes both Elizabeth ''and'' Lydia to fall for him. It is only when Elizabeth finds out the truth from Darcy, {{spoiler|that Wickham tried to seduce and then elope with his sister Georgiana in order to get access to Darcy's fortune without having to do a day's work}}, that his true character comes out. And then, Wickham {{spoiler|runs off with Lydia}}, nearly ruining the Bennet family until {{spoiler|Darcy pays him to marry her}}.
* The insanely smart, educated, and incredibly cultured radio deejay, Jean-Loup Verdier, in ''I kill'', with his highpowered knowledge of music, a voice that melts your socks, and a personality to woo women AND men. Switch off air and he's still cultured, highly intelligent, and oh ''so grammatically polite'', but he kills and skins the faces off people to make his dead brother beautiful again. Still very polite, though.
* [[Artemis Fowl (Literature)|Artemis Fowl]], {{spoiler|at least, in the beginning. Later, he makes a [[Heel Face Turn]] and becomes an [[Anti
* Napoleon in Naomi Novik's [[Temeraire]] series.
* In [[Robert E Howard]]'s [[Conan the Barbarian]] story "Rogues in the House", Nabonidus courteously draws Murillo aside, to give him the box with the ear in it.
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* Cory Doctorow's ''[[For the Win (Literature)|For the Win]]'' contains a tale of a sweatshop manager who would take the poor workers out to theatres, buy them stuff, be their bestest friend - but always find some (seemingly sincere) excuse to avoid paying their wages. One day, he vanished with all the takings, never having paid a single rupee.
* Captain Shannon from ''[[Ben Elton|The First Casualty]]'' 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 [[Warrior Poet]] 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.
* O'Brien from ''[[Nineteen Eighty
** Of course, [[Fridge Brilliance|the Party preaches the virtues of double-think]], so it kind of makes sense.
* Mule from [[Isaac Asimov]]'s ''[[Foundation]]'' series is a more suitable target for pity than anger: he's ugly, sterile, and physically weak, but is amiable enough to befriend the protagonists. Too bad he's a psychic bent on conquering the Galaxy.
* The ''[[Malazan Book of the Fallen]]'' has Bauchelain, who can calmly explain to the woman he's just raped why he should not have raped his manservant instead.
* Crell Moset from the [[Star Trek Novel Verse]], though in his case, it's a crippling need to be liked. He genuinely wants the subjects of his invasive medical experiments to appreciate him. He's not really cruel in the usual sense, he's just totally lacking in empathy, and believes [[For Science!|his science takes priority]]. Not only does he take steps to try and make his victims feel at ease - including singing pleasant songs - but the closest he gets to threatening is childish pique when people won't let him perform his experiments. In the [[Star Trek Voyager Relaunch]], as part of a [[Continuity Nod]] to [[Star Trek the Battle of Betazed]], he seems to genuinely think that the Betazoids were selfish in the extreme for taking back their planet and disrupting his earlier work there.
** The Overlord of the Redeemers in ''[[Star Trek New Frontier]]''. His entirely self-serving moral code allows him to justify anything he wishes, as it's all "the Will of Xant", to which he, humble as he is, is a mere servant. Affably Evil definitely applies, as, true to his self-image, he's pleasant, soft spoken, and comes across as entirely reasonable in his conversations with others. He's quite friendly, really, for a genocidal warlord.
* The morality-flipped ''[[Transformers Shattered Glass]]'' universe has a number of Affably Evil Autobots:
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* The Leucrotta in ''[[The Orphans Tales (Literature)|The Orphans Tales]]'' is actually a fairly nice guy, if you don't try to fight him. Even then, he'd mostly kill you because that's his role in the story, not because he actually dislikes you.
* From the Goosebumps series
** 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 basically 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 [[Affably Evil]] [[Anti
** In the Slappy series, outside of the fact that he wants to make preteen girls into slaves, he seems like a fun guy. He just likes to play pranks and tell mean (but true) jokes, allowing the audience [[Too Funny to Be Evil|to forget how dangerous he really is]].
** The creatures from The Beast Of The East just see it as an elaborate game and outside of that are quite friendly.
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