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*** The recent Meet the Medic video may have changed this. While operating on The Heavy, they share some pretty friendly banter. It's quite clear, however, that he has no problem endangering The Heavy's life with his experiments. After all, he claims that the sound of The Heavy's heart exploding is simply, "The sound of progress!"

* Many of the villains in ''[[Metal Gear Solid]]'' have a lot of innocent blood on their hands, but many of them are surprisingly nice people if they encounter Snake in a situation where nobody would gain anything by fighting. Sniper Wolf, Vulcan Raven, {{spoiler|Grey Fox}}, Fortune, Olga, The Boss, Ocelot (in MGS and MGS3), and Big Boss murdered dozens of people and took part in large scale terrorism. But you wouldn't suspect that when you meet them at any place where they are not trying to shoot you. But then, you meet people like Psycho Mantis, Vamp, and Volgin, and realize that [[Complete Monster|some people just need to die]].

* ''[[World of Warcraft]]''.

* Drakuru ~~in ''[[World of Warcraft]]''~~. {{spoiler|Turns out, he was using you all along, which isn't a big surprise. He accomplishes his goals and is transformed by the Lich King himself. What is a surprise, however, is that he immediately asks for your forgiveness for the deception and [[We Can Rule Together|invites you to be his right hand man]], both out of gratitude and to make up for tricking you, and because the Lich King apparently has some interest in you personally. The story continues in later quests, ultimately ending in you betraying and killing him. Of course, his "gratitude" would have involved you ultimately being turned into his right-hand ''ghoul'', the lowest rank of the Scourge, while he would be living it up as a Death Knight. It is worth noting, however, that despite being (disguised as) a ghoul, Drakuru didn't treat you as such. Ghouls are footmen at best, but you'd have been an officer, far above the cannon-fodder and privy to Drakuru's most guarded secrets. The guy really believed he was doing you a favor. Of course, it could also be that the ghoul graphics used for your character just represent generic undead-ness.}}

** Drakuru. {spoiler|Turns out, he was using you all along, which isn't a big surprise. He accomplishes his goals and is transformed by the Lich King himself. What is a surprise, however, is that he immediately asks for your forgiveness for the deception and [[We Can Rule Together|invites you to be his right hand man]], both out of gratitude and to make up for tricking you, and because the Lich King apparently has some interest in you personally. The story continues in later quests, ultimately ending in you betraying and killing him. Of course, his "gratitude" would have involved you ultimately being turned into his right-hand ''ghoul'', the lowest rank of the Scourge, while he would be living it up as a Death Knight. It is worth noting, however, that despite being (disguised as) a ghoul, Drakuru didn't treat you as such. Ghouls are footmen at best, but you'd have been an officer, far above the cannon-fodder and privy to Drakuru's most guarded secrets. The guy really believed he was doing you a favor. Of course, it could also be that the ghoul graphics used for your character just represent generic undead-ness.}}

** Arguably, any likable warlock falls into this category, including [[Player Characters]].

** Nexus-Prince Shaffar, the final boss in the Mana Tombs, also comes across as this. As you barge into his operation, his reaction is to say that he was not expecting company and, somewhat apologetically, that he is preoccupied, but promises to tend to you..."personally", all the while using a tone as though he's about to break out the champagne and offer you a drink.

** Bwonsamdi, the Loa of Death in ''Battle for Azeroth'' seems like a fun and jovial guy (although his jokes ''can'' get a little annoying) if you disregard how he [[Your Soul Is Mine| consumes souls to gain power]] over the other Loa and makes [[Deal with the Devil| dark pacts with mortals]] that tend to be heavily stacked in his favor...

* ''[[Persona 3]]'': {{spoiler|Shuji Ikutsuki, hands down. He's kind, he makes silly puns, he always answers your questions and generally aids in the mission to bring down the twelve Arcana [[The Heartless|Shadows]]. Although it turns out that he's just been using the protagonists to bring about [[The End of the World as We Know It|The Fall]], in addition to being fairly clearly [[A God Am I|insane]]. A cutscene in FES reveals that his jovial personality was indeed genuine, showing him making up puns in complete solitude where there would be no need to maintain a pretense. Even his motives for bringing about the Fall seem more along the lines of [[Dark Messiah]], rather than [[Omnicidal Maniac]].}}

* Subverted with {{spoiler|Adachi}} in ''[[Persona 4]]''. {{spoiler|Whenever you meet him in the game, he's frequently shown to be clumsy and incompetent, but a pretty nice and reasonable guy. He even lets the protagonists go in order to pursue Namamtame. Needless to say, [[Faux Affably Evil|this is all an act]]. He's actually an [[Ax Crazy]] [[Complete Monster]] who committed the murders largely [[For the Evulz|for the fun of it]], and would be quite content to let the world succumb to the world of the shadows. He even [[Kick the Dog|mocks his victims]] when recounting his experiences with the protagonists. That said, he can be pretty damn funny in an [[Laughably Evil|insane, monstrous]] way.}}