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*** Davis reunited with the cast -- minus Eve Plumb, who was replaced with [[The Other Darrin|a "fake Jan"]] -- for ''The Brady Bunch Variety Hour'', and was asked to do a series of skits alongside Rip Taylor, who played a neighbor named Mr. Merrill. Davis was not a fan of Taylor, to say the least; Susan Olsen's memoir on the series claimed that Davis considered Taylor's comedy skits to be vulgar and unfit for human audiences, and Davis refused to interact with Taylor in any way other than what was absolutely necessary for the show. To this day, Taylor has hard feelings for Davis and has maintained he was confused as to her attitude toward him. Davis refuses to talk about her work with Taylor.
* ''[[Highway to Heaven]]'': A third season, titled "That's Our Dad," could well have been inspired by Robert Reed's off-screen self. Said episode features Ned Beatty as Bill Cassidy, who plays a model father on-screen but is an insufferable jerk off-camera. Two kids who live in a foster home are ardent fans of "That's Our Dad" and want to be adopted (for real) by the actor, unaware that Cassidy's "adoption of two kids" at the end of each episode is a promotional trick. After the two foster kids learn the cruel truth about Cassidy, Jonathan helps set Cassidy straight and tells him he needs to live to his expectations.
* ''[[Family Matters]]'': A pre-Urkel episode titled "False Arrest" features Ron Glass as Buddy Goodrich, the star of an eponymously titled show that [[Affectionate Parody|is an obvious parody of]] ''[[
* ''[[All in The Family]]'':
** "Edith's Problem," the classic episode known not for its treatment of a typical American woman having trouble dealing with its symptoms, but Edith's irritability as she goes through the early stages. Most punctuated by Archie's well-meaning but ill-advised attempts to deal with his wife – oh, just "Stifle, stifle, STIFLE!"
** Lionel Jefferson, the young black neighbor of the Bunkers who usually playfully tried to expose Archie's bigotry when Archie tried in his bull-in-a-china-shop way to mentor Lionel on the ways of the world. In "Lionel Steps Out," Lionel tells him exactly what he thinks of Archie's attitudes when he crosses the line and tries to stop him from dating his white niece.
* Game show hosts are sometimes accused of this, and there have been well-documented examples of several seemingly genial and/or jovial hosts being complete jerks off-screen. The most frequently cited example is Richard Dawson, with his well-publicized disputes with production staff and maniacal ego during his heyday on ''[[Family Feud]]''. Bob Barker – particularly with his feud with the classic Barker's Beauties (and ex-production staff members who have sided with the Beauties in various lawsuits) and purportedly announcer Rod Roddy – has also been cited. In a more recent interview with retired producer Roger Dobkowitz, there have been revelations that Gene Rayburn (of ''[[Match Game]]'' fame) was a complete jerk to staff and others.
* ''[[
** And Shirley's a good Christian woman, but don't let that make you think she won't mess you up in paintball. And not just in paintball - "that thing about the jukebox was way too specific to be improvised."
** And don't piss either of them off if they happen to be temporary campus security guards, as Jeff learned when their interrogation of him ended with Annie slamming his head against a table and Shirley threatening to cut him up with a pizza slicer.
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*** In "Hush" Xander sees a bloody jowled Spike leaning over a napping Anya, his point of view suggesting that Spike had attacked her. Xander immediately launches a what-should-be-a-suicidal-attack-against-what-he-thinks-is-a-restored-vampire and starts pounding Spike.
* ''[[
** Fred was usually sweet and gentle but on a few occasions she had her inner badass released.
*** In "Deep Down" she goes wacky on Connor with a taser when she discovers his complicity in {{spoiler|Angel being sent to the bottom of the ocean}}.
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* Rounding out the [[Whoniverse]] trifecta we have Sarah Jane of ''[[The Sarah Jane Adventures]]'': a kind, compassionate [[Technical Pacifist]] who will utterly ''destroy'' you if you try to invade her planet, hurt [[True Companions|her friends]] or [[Berserk Button|mess with her son]].
* [[Chuck]] seems harmless, friendly and Adorkable, but if you threaten his friends or family, expect him to destroy you. For examples, you may as well just look at the entire CMOA page for Chuck.
* ''[[
** Carly Shay is very sassy at times, but she does have a long temper. To short it out is not a good idea. It was the focus of ''iThink They Kissed''. Carly's always open to her best friends about her secrets, but when she learns of her [[First Kiss|best friends' secret]] that was kept from her, she gets "whipped up" about it. In such a state, NEVER [[Berserk Button|tell her to calm down]].
** The oh, so nice Freddie Benson also seems to have his sadistic sides, especially towards Gibby ('''iWon't Cancel the Show''') and Nevel.
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** In the South American Adventure Special, James points out: 1) He is afraid of heights, 2) He doesn't like it when the others deliberately rear-end him, 3) they will be driving along a very narrow road adjacent to a very long drop, and 4) he is carrying a 3' long machete, which adds up to 10) {{spoiler|if one of them rear-ends him on that road, he will castrate the offending party}}. Then Jeremy rear-ends him accidentally, the great oaf....
** Also Richard Hammond, just once, during the race to the North Pole, although whether he'd actually have gone through with it...
* Annie of ''[[
** Later, she finds out that the vampires have started to kill some people they were keeping as a herd; she shows up at their HQ in full on poltergeist mode, ripping doors out of their hinges and sending multiple vampires flying into walls hard enough to be knocked out. It was a [[Crowning Moment of Awesome]].
* In the British detective series ''[[New Tricks]]'', Jack Halford is a quiet, softly-spoken and wise old cop who acts as a mentor to the rest of the team... who possesses, if sufficiently roused, a fierce and at times even violent temper. [[Berserk Button|Do]] ''[[Berserk Button|not]]'' [[Berserk Button|taunt him about his dead wife, either.]]
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** [[Our Angels Are Different|Castiel]] may seem [[Adorkable|amusingly out of touch]] much of the time, but you really don't want to make him angry. Hell, not even Castiel's [[True Companions]] are safe from this. At a perceived betrayal, Cas beats {{spoiler|Dean}} to within an inch of his life. Cas going off the rails is NOT a pretty sight.
{{quote| '''{{spoiler|Dean}}:''' "Word of advice--don't piss off the nerd angels."}}
* ''[[
* ''[[Space Cases]]'': On the ''very second episode'', the normally [[The Woobie|shy and self-effacing]] Radu {{spoiler|gets infected with a virus, planted onto a teddy bear by an alien race as a form of biological warfare}}, and [[Unstoppable Rage|goes berserk]]. Before his illness-induced rampage is halted, the 'recreation room' is trashed, the ship's dotty android is in pieces, and Harlan almost gets [[Thrown Out the Airlock]].
* ''[[Gossip Girl]]'':
** Dan, whose conversion as an Ultimate Insider in season 3 is in full bloom in season 4. It was either "adapt or die". Usually, something happens to remind him that he has a moral compass before he goes off the deep end.
* ''[[
** Why is the [[Retired Badass|older, fatherly preacher]] as good a shot as the hardened mercenary Jayne when he chooses to fight?
** River Tam, despite her outbursts of occasional [[Axe Crazy|madness]], is generally a gentle and friendly soul who finds violence terrifying. [[Manchurian Agent|Then the Fruity-Oaty Bars commercial comes on,]] [[Super Soldier|and,]] [[Waif Fu|well....]]
** River's brother, Simon, is generally meek, polite (if snarky) and occasionally clumsy guy who apparently wouldn't hurt a fly... mess with his sister though and you'll find that he not only throws a mean punch but can also get devilishly creative with his medical inventory.
* ''[[Heroes (TV series)|Heroes]]'' Happy-go-lucky Hiro Nakamura gets some pretty dark revenge on immortal [[Knight Templar]] Adam Monroe for [[You Killed My Father|killing his father Kaito]]. {{spoiler|He [[Buried Alive|buries him alive]] in the same graveyard where his father was buried, with nothing to keep Adam company [[Nightmare Fuel|but his own screams]]}}. Do NOT piss off Hiro.
** His [[Future Badass]] self in "Five Years Gone" should have been a warning...
*** Adam himself, arguably. He comes across as a friendly guy, decent and caring (At least in modern times. In the past he's been a mercenary on at least four separate occasions) he just happens to want to wipe out billions of people and choose who survives to live in his new perfect world is all. Hiro's too much of a [[The Cape|Cape]] to do that for pure revenge - this is a guy the world does ''not'' need to have turning up again.
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** From the GN's, Linda Tarvara. A friendly, personable young girl with a caring demeanour who is often polite to people. She's a dedicated and takes pride in her work. She also murders people by RIPPING OUT THEIR SOULS so she can FEED on their abilities. Her first human victim? A sweet, lovely old woman who she tricks, traps and murders, all while acting kind and considerate. This girl makes Sylar look like a candidate for sainthood (Season 1 Sylar mind you, the emotionless murder machine, not the "Morally Grey" character of Season 3)
** Matt Parkman. Good natured, loving surrogate father to Molly and a man who desperately wants to be the best husband he can. But: Mess with his family or friends and expect trouble, as the fascist soldiers under the command of Emile Danko learned when Matt forced them to slaughter each other.
*** Or with Sylar. {{spoiler|Locking him in a prison within his own mind, an empty world where ''years'' pass for every hour of real time, and then sealing his body behind a brick wall}} should do the trick. {{spoiler|For two episodes, anyway}}. Mind you, Sylar borrowed Claire's [[Healing Factor]], and used his newfound shapeshifting ability to ''move'' the part of the brain that can be attacked to disable it, so it's not like [[Why Don't Ya Just Shoot Him|a bullet]] will bother him. That's the thing about some [[Moral Dissonance]] in ''[[Heroes (TV series)|Heroes]]:'' some of these villains are so powerful that you ''have'' to get creative to be ''sure'' they won't be back to [[No Brainer|relieve you of your gray matter]] someday. Notice that ''even these things almost never work!''
** Claire Bennet has shades of this. While she [[I Just Want to Be Normal|just wants a normal life]], she's also quick to make use of her [[Healing Factor|powers]] to protect people she loves... or destroy those who have hurt her. Take Brody Mitchum, who [[Attempted Rape|tried to rape her]], and turned out to have raped someone else. She drove his car into a brick wall. While he was in it.
*** Let's not forget playing a major part in the bringing down of a plane, rescuing Eric Doyle from pursuing gun-toting agents, and bringing serious harm to Sylar on several occasions (including putting a pencil to the nastiest use since [[Rachel McAdams]] in ''[[Red Eye (
**** She is immortal, feels no pain, and is practically fearless. Not someone you want as an enemy.
** Mohinder, anyone? Sure, he's become a bit of a [[Butt Monkey]] and is frequently handed the [[Idiot Ball]]. But let's not forget how he smiled and laughed and acted completely sweet and naive around Sylar... right before serving Sylar sedative-laced tea, strapping him to a chair, torturing him with ''[[Cool and Unusual Punishment|a tuning fork]]'', and then ramming a huge needle into Sylar's ''spine''. And laughing about it. Damn, Mohinder.
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* All of the main cast of ''[[NCIS]]'', being a team of [[Bunny Ears Lawyer|Bunny Ears Lawyers]], are capable of surprising would-be bad guys with their competence, but especially notable is Abby, the [[Perky Goth]] [[The Lab Rat|Lab Rat]] who, as a civilian scientist and all-around [[Genki Girl]], seems like an easy target... and manages to beat the stuffing out of almost every villain who's made that unfortunate assumption.
{{quote| "Always remember; I am one of the few people on Earth who can kill you and leave no forensic evidence."}}
* Frank Black from ''[[Millennium (TV series)|Millennium]]'' is mild-mannered, law-abiding, honorable, and dearly loves his family. It's also heavily implied through the first season that the reason he is so gifted in understanding the minds of serial killers is that he has the traits of a killer himself ("I become the capability, I become the horror, what we know we can become in our heart of darkness") {{spoiler|culminating in him brutally butchering the man who kidnapped his wife.}}
* Despite having the strength of ten men and the ability to calculate frankly incredible statistics in mere seconds, ''[[Star Trek:
{{quote| '''Data''': I assume your handprint will open the door, whether you are conscious or not.}}
* [[Star Trek: Deep Space Nine|Quark]] feels this way about humans, and by proxy the Federation itself. Sure, as a whole the human race is a pretty decent bunch, but that's only during peace time. Push them too hard and you'll have some of the nastiest hitters in the galaxy. Specifically, the Federation may be all about peaceful coexistence and exploration, but remember that they "explore" with heavily-armed warships and have a super secret organization that will commit genocide on their behalf if they screw with them too hard. They've built "[[Pint-Sized Powerhouse|Escort Vessels]]" that could go toe to toe with the dedicated war vessels of their contemporaries and that can level planets from orbit.
{{quote| '''Quark''': Let me tell you something about Hew-mons, nephew. They're a wonderful, friendly people... as long as their bellies are full and their holosuites are working. But take away their creature comforts... deprive them of food, sleep, sonic showers... put their lives in jeopardy over an extended period of time... and those same friendly, intelligent, wonderful people will become as nasty and violent as the most bloodthirsty Klingon. You don't believe me? Look at those faces, look at their eyes...}}
** Basically, one way to look at it could be to say that humans are basically, in the 'Trek century, a bunch of fairly genuine pacifists who would rather use words than weapons... but the only reason that philosophy works is because they're so armed up to the back teeth that they don't NEED to use anger and violence as a line of defense. Then when enemies like the Borg come along and terrify the life out of us... well, then you get movies like ''First Contact''.
*** Essentially, speak softly and pilot spacefaring death.
* And ''[[Star Trek: Voyager|Voyager]]'' gave us perpetual newbie and resident [[Butt Monkey]] Ensign Harry Kim... who in "The Chute" managed to hand beatdowns to hardened prison inmates in defense of his [[Heterosexual Life Partners]] Tom Paris, before finally snapping and turning on Paris himself. He was on aggression-enhancing drugs, but still. There was also his [[Heroic BSOD]] at the end of "Timeless."
** ''Voyager'' also gave us Kes. The nicest girl you'll ever meet, but don't get on her bad side. A body-surfing warlord who had lived for ''centuries'' found out the hard way that an angry Kes is not someone you want to mess with.
* ''[[The Middleman]]''. An old-fashioned, milk-drinking, seldom-swearing, well-dressed, earnest, polite, and naive gentleman who {{spoiler|tortured a mob leader for info in front of his own bar, while drinking a tall, frosty glass of milk.}}
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* ''[[Royal Pains]]'': Divya: "Evan, if you breathe a word of this to anyone I will find a medically plausible way to kill you, and get away with it."
* While Rodney McKay of ''[[Stargate Atlantis]]'' isn't really nice ''per se'', he's the most non violent character on any offworld team, and his wide blue [[Woobie]] eyes make him victim fodder, not to mention the many times he's kidnapped. But he will often unleash a barrage of infinite [["The Reason You Suck" Speech|The Reason You Suck speeches]] at the bad guy, or even his own team members when particularly stressed. That said, please don't give him wraith enzyme. Ever.
** And while [[Stargate SG
*** He also calmly threatened to kill Apophis if he didn't tell him where Sha're was.
**** Sha're is basically Daniel's [[Berserk Button]] for much of the series. The whole of the first 5 seasons is basically his equivalent of a [[Roaring Rampage of Revenge]]. He's so nice, he barely even raised his voice, he just embarked on the genocide of the species that took his wife from him.
***** We get a first glimpse of this in a first season episode, where he and Carter are standing over an incubator of Goa'uld children. He comments that the Goa'uld will grow up and enslave humans, and Carter responds with "Yes, but if we kill them now then we're no better than they are." Jackson, after pausing for a second, seems to accept it, starts to walk away... and then he spins and fires a submachine gun burst into the incubator, killing the Goa'ulds. That's for my wife, bitch.
** For that matter, Samantha Carter is a good-natured, genial nerdy type, but she's also career military and can kick your ass in a second flat. [[Fan Nickname|Replicarter]], Sam's evil galaxy conquering replicator double, shows that we should consider ourselves fortunate to have Sam on our side. After all, [[Remember When You Blew Up a Sun?|she blows up suns]].
* The eponymous [[Merlin (TV series)|Merlin]]. Adorable, loyal, and a bit of a Dojikko, but God help you if you ever try to kill anyone he cares about, because that is last thing you will ever do. His anger is sudden and his powers are fierce and he ''will'' blast you off the face of the Earth. Keep in mind that this is ''the most powerful sorcerer the world has ever known.'' If he wants to tear mountains apart, ''he can do it''. Please don't make him.
{{quote| Merlin: "You should not have killed my friend." (pulls lightning from the sky and blasts {{spoiler|Nimueh}} to ashes)}}
** He also has the highest body count in the series, can pretty much stop time, and can kill you just by looking at you. And do it with absolutely no emotion. In-Universe, he's a [[Lethal Joke Character]].
* Similarly, Clark Kent from ''[[Smallville]]'' (at least before a nonsensical transformation at the end of Season Eight) is a shy, humble, unassuming young man, generally avoiding the limelight and talking his way out of battles; even when he does fight, he'd rather use defensive maneuvers to defeat his foes. But when ''anything'' bad happens to a member of his family, from his parents to his friends to Lana, all bets are off.
* Perhaps best summarized in the pilot episode (and opening) of the 1970s ''[[The Incredible Hulk (TV series)|The Incredible Hulk]]''. "Mr. McGee, don't make me angry. You wouldn't like me when I'm angry." Remember that in this version, the Hulk essentially is Banner, but with tremendous strength, and a child's mentality.
* In ''[[House (TV series)|House]]'', Dr. James Wilson seems deeply kind, caring, and eternally compassionate to his patients, and nearly as much so to his friends. And he is, until he gets pushed far enough to reveal that deep down, he can be just as much of a cold, snarky manipulative bastard as House - maybe even more so. He just chooses not to be because it seems healthier.
* Zhaan of ''[[
{{quote| '''Zhaan''': Is this the way you repay my help? How would you like your arm torn off? Hear me! I could rip you apart! Right now, Kahalan help me, I'd enjoy it.}}
** Likewise, Pilot is a shy and gentle creature dedicated to serving the crew of Moya, regardless of how much they exploit or abuse him. However, on quite a few occasions, the crew or unwanted visitors have found out the hard way that pissing off the guy that controls the life support systems ''might'' just be a bad idea. Case in point: the terrorist he flushed out of an airlock while laughing maniacally.
* Just about everyone who encounters [[The Sarah Connor Chronicles|the Connors]] ends up thinking that [[Robot Girl|Cameron]] is an odd but otherwise docile girl. And she stays that way, unless [[Berserk Button|someone threatens the Connors.]] Then she shows them just why she is known as a [[Terminator]].
* Leo of ''[[
** He has killed an Elder and even helped a magical group wipe out free will.
* Will and Finn on ''[[Glee]]'' are the epitome of [[Nice Guy|Nice Guys]]. The two spend the first half of season one in [[The Baby Trap]] by their women and when they find out...whoo boy. Will goes borderline catatonic upon realizing his wife's fake pregnancy and it almost appears like he is going to hurt ''her''. Finn meanwhile finds out his girlfriend's baby is really his best friend's and the second he hears it runs after him, attacks him, and proceeds to beat the living daylights out of him, be held back by several football players, and manages to chuck a chair on his way out.
** Not to mention Burt Hummel, a [[Good Parents]] and [[Nice Guy]], who chases Dave Karofsky down in the school hallway, pins him up against the wall and is about an inch away from beating him senseless {{spoiler|after he finds out that Karofsky threatened to kill Kurt}}. And this just five episodes after a {{spoiler|serious heart attack and coma}}. If you know what's good for you, you do ''not'' threaten Burt's son.
** And then, let's not mention what the reaction of our group of misfits were when Rachel {{spoiler|was egged by her ex-boyfriend and his rival glee team.}} The moral? Don't mess with [[Nakama|New Directions]].
*** They have a very similar reaction when Blaine gets hit by a [[Eye Scream|rock salt filled slushie]] by Sebastian, his [[Stalker
* Erin on ''[[The Office]]'' is the cute [[The Pollyanna|Pollyanna]] and borderline [[Cloudcuckoolander]]. Upon realizing Andy was engaged to Angela she goes ''nuts'' and ends up chucking a cake at him!
* Amanda King in ''[[
* He just barely qualifies but Seth Bullock of ''[[Deadwood]]'' is mostly an honourable, hard working man{{spoiler|affair with Alma Garret not withstanding}}, who happily helps out troubled widows and acts as law keeper for Deadwood. But the man has a psychotic, as in, other characters in the town of Deadwood consider him INSANE temper and god help the poor misguided fool who gets on his bad side. One excellent, non physical example is in season 3 when {{spoiler|someone shoots at his former lover Alma}} Timothy Olyphant/Seth Bullock gets maybe one scene the whole episode and spends it basically vibrating and twitching with rage. He's almost incapable of understand his friend Sol's quiet urges to pray over their dinner.
** An ever better example his is RAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAGE when {{spoiler|Wild Bill Hickock, Bullock's new friend, is shot and killed by a cowardly poker player}} Bullock comes ''this close'' to strangling the man to death while he's imprisoned, then, when the killer is turned loose due to Deadwood's status as an Annexe, he flies into another of his barely contained rages and goes after him on horseback. It's only his annoying habit of being an honourable man that forces him to take the man to a 'proper' town to have justice served and not just barehanded murder him himself
*** Yet another example is his very first appearance as an apparently quite amiable sheriff, willing to listen to a horse thief, who shot Bullock, in his attempt to bribe Bullock into releasing him. When a lynch mob turn up to get the guy, Bullock fends them off without raising his gun and offers mercy to the man by...hanging him a few hours early, having to jerk the man off a stool so his neck breaks -- but his death is legal.
**** Then there's the fact {{spoiler|he might be a quicker draw than Wild Bill -- in the pilot a shifty cowpoke tells the story of a family massacred out on the road. Bullock, Bill and a few others, ride out and end up rescuing a small girl. When they return, the cowpoke is now even shiftier (it later turns out he and his brother were behind the massacre) and Bullock and Wild Bill see fit to shoot him down. Bill has to ask if Bullock shot first even though they seemed to draw at the same time. While Bullock declares it was Bill who shot first, it's strongly implied Bullock is the quicker draw (though to be fair, by this point, Bill is older and drunker than he was in his heyday}}).
* ''[[M*A*S*H
** More consistent, yet less extreme, is Father Mulcahey. As expected of a sincere man of God, he strives to be compassionate, patient, and forgiving. Sometimes though, the right thing has to be done whether you like it or not, and if he can't convince you with wise words, a fist in your mouth makes an acceptable substitute.
*** And lets not forget the fact that before he was a priest, he was a boxer.
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* Spock in ''[[Star Trek TOS]]''. Generally a pacifist, but the very few times he loses his temper make it blatantly obvious ''why'' Vulcans keep such strong control over their emotions. And that's not even mentioning the times when something threatens Kirk and the pacifist Vulcan becomes rapidly ''un''pacifist.
** A key example would be ''Devil in the Dark'' where Spock went out of his way to try to protect the creature that was sabotaging the mine station and killing the miners. Once Kirk was facing the creature, though, Spock was about ready to murder it himself! {{spoiler|Thankfully it turns out the [[Monster Is a Mommy|creature was just trying to protect her eggs]] and it all works out for the best.}}
* Blair Sandburg in ''[[The Sentinel (TV series)|The Sentinel]].'' Anthropology grad student, raised by a mother who could be described as "the last flower child not gone to seed" -- but threaten (or even worse, ''hurt'') Jim and you'll wish you had left matters well enough alone.
* Doctor Parker, from ''[[Flanders Company]]'', is a very nice fellow, always calm and collected, happy to help his company and others in general... {{spoiler|Until his [[Super-Powered Evil Side]] takes control. Expect a lot of slaughters and massive quantity of blood.}}
* Eric Gotts from ''[[Wonderfalls]]'' was by far the nicest, least obnoxious and least ridiculous of the main characters, but when his cheating ex-wife turned up, he was downright vicious to her, including throwing a glass across the room, narrowly missing her head.
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* Betty White's character Rose of ''[[The Golden Girls]]'' fame, is the sweetest, most bubbly member of the foursome, if also the dimmest. But there is a very, ''very'' good reason why the others take great pains not to get on her bad side...
* ''[[Kamen Rider Kuuga]]'''s title character, Yuusuke Godai, is normally a kind-hearted guy who wants nothing more than to protect people's smiles, and is [[Friend to All Children|especially good with kids]]. But as one sadistic Grongi learned the hard way in episode 35, it is ''not'' a good idea to push him too far. Said Grongi ended up on the receiving end of one of the most frightening [[Unstoppable Rage|Unstoppable Rages]] of the entire franchise, a savage [[No-Holds-Barred Beatdown]] that culminated with Godai finishing him off with a rage-fueled Rising Calamity Titan attack.
* Russell Glasser of ''[[
* EADA Ben Stone of ''[[Law and Order]]'' is a real [[Nice Guy]], especially when compared to his successors, [[Jerkass]] Jack McCoy and borderline [[Smug Snake]] Mike Cutter. But if you managed to push his buttons, watch out. He will destroy you, all while remaining [[Tranquil Fury|perfectly calm]].
** And in similar fashion, across the pond, we have [[Law and Order UK|DS Matt Devlin]], who's also basically a very [[Nice Guy]], and even manages to remain so while chasing and interrogating suspects. But push one of ''his'' buttons (child abuse, Alesha Phillips, Ronnie Brooks), and it'll take every ounce of his self-control to not wring your neck.
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(the fact that he ''smiles'' as he says/does this just drives the point home) }}
* ''[[Game of Thrones]]'': Daenerys Targaeryn may seem like a young, helpless girl. But if you go after her husband or her child, she will burn you alive.
* ''[[Spartacus: Blood and Sand]]'' has the generally quiet and meek Aurelia, wife of Varro. She seems to be the only delicate flower in a ludus filled with gladiators, guards, and soldiers. Then we learn that she castrated her rapist. In the final episode she she brutally {{spoiler|stabs to death the teenager who callously ordered Varro's death}}. Even Sparty and Doctore (you know - the deadliest gladiator in the empire, and the man who trained him) are kind of squicked by her rage when they arrive on scene.
* On BBC's ''[[Sherlock]]'', Doctor John Watson is an unassuming, gentle soul, who lets Sherlock order him around on their adventures. It's so easy to forget that he has recently seen active service in Afghanistan, and {{spoiler|shoots a serial killer dead, between two buildings, through two windows, with a handgun, only in the first episode of the show. And shows absolutely no remorse about it.}}
** Actually, of the {{spoiler|two major bad-guy deaths over the first three Sherlock episodes, BOTH of them were killed by John Watson. The second being in The Blind Banker, where he successfully offs a Chinese gangster trying to simultaneously kill both Sarah and Sherlock, by one movement of his leg. Which happens to be tied to a chair at the time. Do not mess with John Watson or anyone he happens to like.}}
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** It's also a pretty bad idea to insult Sherlock in front of John. Just ask {{spoiler|the Chief Superintendent of Scotland Yard.}}
* Paladin of ''[[Have Gun Will Travel]]'' is generally a fairly friendly guy, and even gentle to nice people, but can be a terrible enemy if you cross him/hurt innocents.
* Many many [[Super Sentai]] characters are perfectly friendly [[Nice Guy]], with some [[Jerkass|Jerkasses]] eventually be revealed [[Jerk
* [[Mad Men
* The main cast of ''[[Leverage]]'' is more or less this ''all the time'': if you're their client, they'll move heaven and earth to help you; if you're their mark ... And heaven help you [[Fate Worse Than Death|if you make them mad]].
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