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'''Vladimir Lem:''' What the fuck is wrong with you, Max? Why don't you just die? You hate life, you're miserable all the time, afraid to enjoy yourself even a little! Face it, you might as well be dead already. Do yourself a favor, give up! }}

{{quote|'''Torino:''' I wanted to see what you were made of.

'''CJ:''' ''(Angrily)'' What it look like I'm made of? Pudding?

** Similarly, General Knoxx from another DLC falls under this. He believes to be the [[Only Sane Man]] in his group and actually apologizes over having to kill you.

** There is also Mr. Shank. Despite having [[Names to Run Away From Really Fast|a really scary name]] and having an army of cannibal escaped convicts, he's actually a pretty nice guy. Really, he's only trying to kill you in self-defense. He watches you on security cameras while talking about how one of his henchmen [[Suspiciously Specific Denial|who he is totally not in love with or anything]] makes great chilli-cheese fries. {{spoiler|When you kill him, the person who contracted you to kill him starts getting all teary-eyed remembering the good times they had together}}.

** ''[[Fire Emblem Tellius|Fire Emblem: Radiant Dawn]]'' sees Sephiran, who is introduced and interacts with the protagonists as an almost saint-like figure in the first game, a devoted servant of [[Light Is Not Good|the Goddess Ashera]], until it is revealed that {{spoiler|he is the mastermind behind the plot to awaken Ashera and wipe out all life with her divine wrath, having totally lost faith in the world after the Serenes Massacre. Also, he's over 1,000 years old.}}

* Gnarl in ''[[Overlord]]'' always acts in a calm, polite manner, something that simply doesn't cross the minds of most of your other minions. Even after {{spoiler|siding with the original Overlord, and betraying you at the end of the first game}}, he still refrains from berating the player, and, instead, compliments you on doing a good job.

* The ''[[Dwarf Fortress]]'' player community is quite welcoming and helpful to new players, showering them with links to tutorials for the nigh-incomprehensible interface and helping them troubleshoot newbie mistakes and [[Too Dumb to Live|dwarven intelligence]]. They're also infamous for pushing [[Video Game Cruelty Potential]] to [[Moral Event Horizon|new and exciting extremes]] for the sake of convenience, lulz, and the dwarven way.

* [[Tales of the Abyss]] has a lot of these, since nearly every antagonist is a [[Well-Intentioned Extremist]] to some degree. [[Big Bad|Van Grants]] in particular: while he has a fair few [[Kick the Dog]] moments when he first shows his true colors, outside of this he is polite toward the protagonists, and offers genuine praise to Luke and Tear when they become strong enough to pose a serious threat to his plans. He was also a very kind and devoted elder brother to Tear, and even after his betrayal Luke still sees him as more of a father figure than his actual father.

** It's actually revealed by [[Little Bit Beastly|Ma]][[Genki Girl|ko]][[Boisterous Bruiser|to]] [[Protectorate|Na]][[Beware the Nice Ones|na]][[Good Is Not Soft|ya]] that the affable-ness is [[Faux Affably Evil|nothing but a put-on]]. Hazama's [[Politeness Judo|friendliness]] is to make people drop their guard around him ([[Obviously Evil|not that it works]] [[Devil in Plain Sight|very well, mind you,]]) and make it [[Manipulative Bastard|easier for him to manipulate them]]; the politeness is his way of, through veiled [[Sarcasm Mode|sarcasm]], showing his scornful contempt for others; and the moments he's at his [[Laughably Evil|funniest]] is actually when he's gleefully <s> crossing</s> [[Crosses the Line Twice|skipping rope with]] the [[Moral Event Horizon]], so yeah...

** Same goes to Relius Clover. For all his depravities [[For Science!|in the name of science]], he conducts himself in a very stoic and very calm manner befitting of his position as a Colonel. He also keeps his calm better than Hazama.