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[[File:pitbullsheep.jpg|link=Visual Pun|frame| [[A Worldwide Punomenon|Not all bitches are this easy to spot.]]]]
{{quote|''Look like the innocent flower, but be the serpent under 't.''
You meet someone you think is a really [[Nice Guy]]/Girl, or perhaps you meet a favorite celebrity for the first time, thinking that they'll be just as [[Nice Character, Mean Actor|warm-hearted and cool as they are on camera]]. However, something happens to show their [[True Colors]], revealing an immature brat, [[No Hero to His Valet|total]] [[Jerkass]], or even outright [[Villain]].
Congratulations. You've just met the '''Bitch in Sheep's
The [[Wounded Gazelle Gambit]] is a favorite tactic of this sort of antagonist, and if they are genuinely evil, expect them to be a [[Villain with Good Publicity]].
It's also worth mentioning that this trope isn't exclusive to female characters. The [https://web.archive.org/web/20160115035317/http://www.heartless-bitches.com/rants/niceguys/niceguys.shtml "Nice Guy"] who hides a cruel, self-centered nature under superficial inoffensiveness is also a Bitch In Sheep's Clothing. (Don't confuse this with the [[Nice Guy]] trope, though.)
In romance plots, the Bitch in Sheep's Clothing is usually trying to date, dating, or about to marry another character, and is hiding their [[True Colors]]. Occasionally, the Bitch in Sheep's Clothing genuinely ''was'' a nice person... but suffered sudden [[Character Derailment]] in order to [[Derailing Love Interests|remove their status as a love interest]] for another character. In any case, expect them to make an [[Engineered Public Confession]] in one form or another.
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== Anime and Manga ==
* Inaho Hitomebore from ''Master of Mosquiton 99''. To the school, she's the most exalted student; to those unfortunate enough to travel with her, she is a miser who uses her friends as tools and makes the guy who loves her do stupid and humiliating things while she ignores his pleas and thinks of riches.
* In ''[[Ashita no Nadja]]'', Nadja's best friend, Rosemary Applefield, starts as a sweet [[Naive Everygirl]] with a huge inferiority complex. After she's "betrayed" by Nadja and snaps, she {{spoiler|makes everyone in her surroundings believe she ''is'' the real Nadja, fooling a whole noble clan as a part of a conspiracy that will make her boss, Hermann Preminger, the true heir to the clan.}} To make these plans work, Rosemary shamelessly lies, tells half-truths, manipulates, steals/destroys various stuff, and gleefully takes part in {{spoiler|Hermann's}} various schemes, rarely losing her innocent facade, and even being ready to ''[[Chronic Backstabbing Disorder|betray]]'' her boss if she gets to keep her new "princess" status that way. {{spoiler|And even when she ''admits'' her defeat and willingly returns everything to Nadja, Rosemary bitterly recognizes that [[Broken Bird|she's been so deeply changed by such experiences]] that she just ''can't'' be the genuinely sweet kid she once was.}}
* Ami from ''[[Toradora!]]'' is a [[Deconstruction]]. She resents acting cutesy and sugary as part of her job as a model (mostly due to the harassment she gets), and her reluctance in confessing to Ryuji is because she's afraid he won't love her true self. Not to mention, everyone except her old friend Yuusaku can see the "bitch" part miles away. Thankfully, she evolves into a [[Jerk with a Heart of Gold]] after befriending the main characters, and is all the happier for it.
* Anko's wart in Episode 14 of ''[[Thriller Restaurant]].'' When she takes over the real Anko's body and mind, she makes herself appear as a bright, attractive girl. In reality, the wart is arrogant, manipulative, and absolutely sadistic. {{spoiler|Thank goodness Shou noticed something was wrong with her.}}
* Lust is one briefly in ''[[Fullmetal Alchemist]]''. As Havoc's girlfriend Solaris, she was apparently charming, sweet, and attentive, and was very supportive of him as he got used to living in Central. Havoc is understandably a bit shocked when she turns out to be an evil quasi-immortal being who {{spoiler|''literally'' stabs him in the back, and then goes on to try to kill Mustang, Hawkeye, and Alphonse}}, all the while thoroughly enjoying herself.
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* Miya Miya of ''[[Bamboo Blade]]''. In classic Power-Rangers style, she's added to the team as the "Pink" ranger for her cute and sweet nature. It's all a lie, though. She's actually the most terrifyingly brutal character in the show. The team names her real persona "Black", and it comes with its ''own aura of violent intent.'' On one occasion, it startles Pink Miya Miya when just her grimace from painful feet terrifies Sayako and Kirino into ''[[Pose of Supplication|dogeza]]'' because they think "You were Black Miya Miya!"
* Polly (Pururun) from ''[[Samurai Pizza Cats]]'', while sweet and charming at first, is actually a real bitch when she gets annoyed, often taking her frustrations out on innocent customers.
* Sei Arisaka from ''[[Hime-chan
* Shou from ''[[Skip Beat!]]'' has carefully engineered his public image to look like the perfect Teenager Cool Prince, and he isn't shy to step over anyone he considers beneath his "grand destiny" of becoming the most popular artist in Japan. He is also selfish, immature, petty, absurdly self-centered, and completely unable to cope with any reaction which isn't admiration or adulation.
* [[Complete Monster|Tomoe Marguerite]] from ''[[Mai-Otome]]'' [[Devil in Plain Sight|puts on airs of sweetness in front of the staff at Garderobe]], but has no problem hurting or otherwise manipulating others to get her way, especially when Shizuru is involved. She even acts nice to Arika herself (in her mind, her main rival for Shizuru's affection), but mainly while others are watching, and reveals her true colors to Arika when she first sees her after the [[Wham! Episode]].
* [[
* Izaya Orihara from ''[[Durarara!!]]
* Zange from ''[[Kannagi]]''.
* Sakurako Sanjou of ''[[Hana Yori Dango]]'', who, in all continuities (manga, anime, drama), befriends [[Plucky Girl|Tsukushi Makino]] and looks like a kind, shy, cutesy type...at least up until she has Tsukushi drugged, takes pictures of her unconscious, in compromising positions, and distributes them freely among the school, leading to her assault by other students. This is revealed as a part of her master plan for seducing/exacting revenge upon Domyoji, Tsukushi's [[Slap Slap Kiss]]-y love interest, which also involved her spending a fortune on plastic surgery, dropping out of school in the past, and hiring professional goons to assault ''various'' characters (not only Tsukushi). The reason for all of this is that ever since she was in kindergarten, Domyoji [[Disproportionate Retribution|bullied her and called her ugly]]. Talk about one [[Woman Scorned]].
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** Kuugo Ginjou, with added [[Memory Gambit]] at no extra charge.
* Mariya Shidou from ''[[Maria Holic]]'' fits this to a T -- sweet, helpful princess of the school on the outside, sadistic [[Manipulative Bastard]] (and [[Villainous Crossdresser]]) on the inside.
* Natsu Tanimoto of ''[[Kenichi: The
* Sae from ''[[Peach Girl]]'', who uses her [[Raven Hair, Ivory Skin]] [[The Ingenue|ingenue]] appearance as an advantage over "gangster-looking" [[Darkskinned Blonde]] Momo (she tans easily). Out of jealousy that Momo has the attention of two hot [[Bishounen]] classmates, Sae pretends to be her friend but starts whispering rumours about her, repeatedly pulls the [[Wounded Gazelle Gambit]] to make people hate her, blackmails her mutual crush into pretending to be Sae's boyfriend instead to protect her, and tells her (next) boyfriend that Momo has rape fantasies about him and demands that he fulfills them - then tricks Momo into going somewhere with him, and ''drugs her into a stupor''. And this was just what she'd done by the 2nd volume.
* In a not-uncommon [[Hentai]] example, Yuriko from ''[[Moonlight Lady]]''. At first, she seems to be a [[Yamato Nadeshiko]] who honors family tradition. She is. She just doesn't care that her daughter gets raped as a part of it. She's not above trying to steal her son-in-law-to-be, either.
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* Akira of ''[[Samurai Deeper Kyo]]'' fits this trope in his interactions with Yuya. To the male characters, he's a complete and utter bastard, but to Yuya, he continues to act sweet even after she knows it's an act.
** A more classic example in the series would be Antera, who has the appearance of a young girl but once killed a man by ''squeezing his head until it popped''.
* Ran from ''[[Urusei Yatsura]]'', although a bit on the ''[[
* ''[[Ranma ½]]'' has [[The Barnum|Nabiki Tendo]]: a [[Faux Affably Evil|pleasant, good-humored]] (if mildly snarky) girl who [[Money Fetish|places more value on her wallet than on human life]]...to the extent that she once offered to sell her (temporary) fiancée to the other members of his [[Unwanted Harem]] (and would have, if they hadn't had a spontaneous attack of [[Stupid Evil]] and tried to kill her instead of pay her), and let the same [[Unwanted Harem]] members know that he was about to marry [[Official Couple|Akane Tendo]] because she thought they'd bring cash presents to the wedding that she could steal. One might also consider [[Anime Chinese Girl|Shampoo]] to be one of these, with her capacity to go from sweet, bubbly, and [[The Glomp|crushingly]] [[No Sense of Personal Space|affectionate]] to a calculating, destructive warrior willing to [[Murder the Hypotenuse|kill off her romantic rivals]]...but she makes no effort to hide her darker side from anyone, least of all Ranma, so she might not count.
** During the introduction story of "Pantyhose" Tarou, when Shampoo finds Akane alone and tied up in a cave, she thinks that this is a perfect opportunity to [[Murder the Hypotenuse]] and let Tarou take the blame. While she was initially quite blatant and straight-forward in her attacks on others, by this point in the manga, she had become quite duplicitous.
* In ''[[Kämpfer]]'', {{spoiler|Kaede Sakura}} would qualify. {{spoiler|[[Sarcasm Mode|Such a sweet girl, handing out stuffed animals to her closest friends and acquaintances]]. Through the early and mid portions of the anime, she's seemingly oblivious to any and all of the strange occurrences happening around her. It's only later that her cold calculating side comes to the forefront.}}
* Luna of ''[[Seto no Hanayome]]'' appears to be a sweet, incredibly [[Moe]] [[Idol Singer]]. Turns out, she's really a bit of a bitch, especially when it comes to one-upping San. Although she does have some [[Jerk with a Heart of Gold|genuinely nice]] moments.
* Tomomi in ''[[Ladies versus Butlers!
* In ''[[Code Geass]]'', {{spoiler|Empress Marianne VI Britannia, AKA Lady Marianne "The Flash", AKA Lelouch's mother, is presented for most of the first season as practically a [[Purity Sue]] that was [[Too Good for This Sinful Earth]], and was killed because of it while protecting her daughter. However, when we finally meet her, late in R2, she turns out to be a [[Blood Knight]] that had used her Geass power to survive, using a young girl (who she constantly [[Mind Raped]]) as a [[Soul Jar]]. Also, she was working with her husband [[The Emperor]] on his [[Assimilation Plot]], and since she lacks his [[Freudian Excuse]], she comes across more as a [[Lady Macbeth]] with shades of [[Knight Templar Parent]] than he does.}}
** C.C., who ''at first'' seems like a persecuted [[Mysterious Waif]] with a humorous affinity for being a [[Deadpan Snarker]] when it comes to Lelouch and a love for pizza. But as the series progresses, it's revealed that she {{spoiler|seriously
* [[Neon Genesis Evangelion
** Though she's also a Tsundere, and she sincerely tries to be deredere sometimes. Usually only to Kaji, but also to Shinji sometimes.
** Anime!Asuka often acts as a bitch to hide her true feelings. For example, she pretended to kiss Shinji just to pass time, but actually, she has feelings for him. So she actually qualifies for the ''inversion'' of this trope.
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* ''[[Honey Hunt]]'': Yukari is Yura's mother, a beautiful and talented actress. But her beauty is only skin deep, as shown throughout the series. She is never at home for Yura and is very selfish. On all of her interviews, she lies and says that she and Yura are close and spend much time together, when in reality, she is a cold and distant parent. While her husband was having an affair, she was having one of her own with Yura's neighbor, Shinsuke (who Yura had a crush on). She and her husband were only together for the sake of their careers and their images, they didn't love each other. The two of them even agreed on a rule with each other that they would stay married as long as they hide their own adulterous affairs. After she decided to divorce Takayuki, however, it is shown that she has no intentions of taking care of Yura, and only cares about improving her image in the eyes of the public who had originally thought she was the "ideal mother".
* Hana Mizuki from ''Papillon''. She has a beautiful angelic appearance and acts in a sickeningly sweet manner towards people, but underneath that is an extremely manipulative and selfish girl who acts terrible to her sister for the sole reason that she wants to prevent her sister "from ever attaining happiness" out of jealousy that boys seem to like her sister's personality more than hers. Kyuu compares her to a rose, stating she is "covered in thorns".
* Mayu Okada from ''[[Kaguyahime
* Mimi Yoshioka from ''[[Lovely Complex]]''. She is in love with Otani, and brings him milk every day so he could reach her height, about the same as Risa's. Since Otani does not have feelings toward her but does have feelings for Risa, she becomes jealous of her. She acts accordingly two-faced between them both: acting sweet and cute whenever Otani is around, yet slipping into [[
* Tsuzuki from ''[[Private Prince]]''.
* ''[[Kimi ni Todoke]]'': Kurumi acts sweet and nice to gain Sawako's sympathy, then tells her to keep her hands off Kazehaya. She gets better, though.
** Kento is an unusually accurate male example, given the way he manipulates classmates and takes advantage of Sawako's faith in him to convince her Kazehaya doesn't like her.
* Ibuki Yagami from ''[[Maison Ikkoku]]'' is a [[Stalker with a Crush]] to her [[Teacher-Student Romance|substitute teacher]] Godai, and she is extremely manipulative and aggressive in getting what she wants. She often makes use of her girlishly innocent appearance to deceive people.
* ''[[Oniisama e...
* Heloïse Villefort of ''[[Gankutsuou]]''. She seems perfectly normal in her first few appearances, with a warm motherly appearance and pleasant smile. She is the stepmother of Valentine and is the second wife of the crown prosecutor Villefort. She is the biological mother of her young son Edward, from her first marriage. Valentine is to inherit all of the fortune, leaving her stepmother jealous because Edward doesn’t get a single penny. So when the Count seduces her and innocently introduces her to toxicology and gives her a deadly ring which releases poison, Heloïse becomes murderous and tries to poison Valentine and her husband, as well as inadvertently almost poisoning Albert and one of the servants of the Villefort household. And she does all this while maintaining her angelic motherly facade up till near the end of the series when her husband finds out what she's been doing and points out that she's nothing more than a murderous woman who's completely lost it before he sends her to an insane asylum.
** As well as Andrea Cavalcanti aka Bendetto. He briefly seems to be a highly cultured fop and a decent guy, and continues to put on that persona, but he's really a total psychopath.
* ''[[Naruto]]'': Kabuto Yakushi. He usually presents himself as this harmless, bumbling oaf with [[Nerd Glasses]] who showed up to help Naruto and his teammates on occasion but is, in fact, a sadistic [[Manipulative Bastard]] and a subordinate of the [[Big Bad]] Orochimaru.
* ''[[Elfen Lied]]'': during Lucy's childhood, she made friends with a seemingly sweet, kind-hearted girl who promised to keep the fact that Lucy was taking care of a puppy a secret from a group of boys who frequently bullied her. Eventually, the boys find out about the puppy and [[Moral Event Horizon|beat it to death in front of Lucy while making her watch]]. Turns out, the girl Lucy made friends with had deliberately told the boys about the puppy, and while she's pretending to cry about it and feel bad about what she did, we see her smile through her tears. Lucy then snaps and kills her along with the bullies.
* Captain Shears in the ''[[Star Fox (series)|Star
* ''[[Yu-Gi-Oh (anime)|Yu-Gi-Oh]]'':
** Seto Kaiba, in his first appearance in the manga and the first anime, pretends to befriend Yugi, and has Yugi's grandfather's Blue Eyes White Dragon switched with a copy. When Yugi figures this out and calls out Kaiba on the switch, Kaiba loses the facade and whacks Yugi in the face with a briefcase.
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** Nezumi in the manga - Yugi and Jonouchi meet Nezumi at school. Nezumi claims that a gang of bullies attacked him and that he needed help in dealing with them. {{spoiler|In fact, Nezumi was ordered by Hirutani, Jonouchi's old middle school friend and now enemy, to have Jonouchi and Yugi lured to the abandoned warehouse so that Jonouchi could be forced to re-join Hirutani's gang.}}
** Volume 1 and [[No Export for You|Season 0]] had Ms. Chono. To the teachers and staff, she is just an incredibly nice and beautiful teacher who does incredibly well in getting her students to behave, and the only flaw she has is her not-so-suspiciously-poor track record for arranged dates and marriages always being called off. To the students, however, she is the "wicked witch of expel", who noticeably has as much bitchiness as she does make-up on her face, and who expels students for even the slightest twitch and has taken delight in starting dates with men just to tug at their heart strings and then shatter them to pieces. Yami Yugi reveals her true nature, but how he does so varies between the manga and the anime.
* Subverted in ''[[Aim for the Ace!
* Ayumi in ''[[Gu-Gu Ganmo]]''. She appears to be a cute, gentle girl in the first few episodes, but eventually, she shows her true colors and turns into a manipulative, self-centered, and aggressive little bitch. Oh, [[Gasshole|and her farts could wipe out whole towns]].
* Henri from ''[[Future GPX Cyber Formula]]''. For most of ''ZERO'', he appeared to be a cheerful rookie who seemed to be nice to most of the racers, but in reality, he's a vengeful person who wanted to make Hayato suffer for taking away his dream. {{spoiler|His father was a former racer who pushed Henri to be the best in racing to make him the youngest champion in CF history, but when Hayato got the title before him, his father started drinking and then abandoned him, which triggered his resentment towards Hayato}}. Thankfully, he somewhat mellowed out at the end of ''ZERO''.
* Fiore of ''[[The World God Only Knows]]'' is actually introduced to the audience as an agent of [[The Remnant|Vintage]] from her first appearance, and it isn't until after she {{spoiler|[[Moral Event Horizon|stabs Kanon]]}} that we see the sheep's clothing that she wears around her fellow New Devils.
* In ''[[Bakuman｡]]'', {{spoiler|[[Smug Snake|Toru]] [[Jerkass|Nanamine]]}} acts polite and cheerful around the editors, apologizing for publishing his oneshot online after it got passed over for an award, and the main characters note that he seems somehow overly polite. When he's alone with the main characters, though, he reveals that he has nothing but contempt for editors, who he views as outsiders who know nothing about manga. He keeps up his persona around his editor until he reveals that he is corresponding with 50 people online for ideas, and, while [[Breaking Lecture|taking advantage of his editor's lack of confidence and need to get a series]], threatens to go elsewhere if his editor doesn't go along with what he does as the 51st person.
* ''[[Monster (manga)|Monster]]'': Johan Liebert
* Remi Mizuchi in ''[[Sukeban Deka]]''. She seems to be [[The Ojou]] in [[Princess Curls]], and seems like the [[White Sheep]] of the family compared to her [[Obviously Evil]] siblings. Then, in the OVA, she suddenly leaps into full-fledged terrorism, and she becomes a major recurring villain in the manga.
* [[Pokémon (anime)|Iris's Emolga]], as the viewers undoubtedly realized from the moment she was introduced. She'd better watch out, 'cause [[Action Girl|Snivy]] don't take no shit.
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* {{spoiler|Saki}} from ''[[Family Compo]]''. At first she seems like a [[Yamato Nadeshiko]] but we quickly learn that's a cover-up since she's a [[Gold Digger]] and a [[Manipulative Bitch]].
* Masahiro from the manga ''Teacher's Pet''. He's aggressive and {{spoiler|forces sex onto the protagonist several times}} but he's quiet and [[Bishonen|feminine looking]] so no one guesses it.
* Momoka from ''[[
== Comic Books ==
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== Fan
* A lot of genuinely nice characters will be [[Alternate Character Interpretation|"interpreted"]] or outright [[Character Derailment|derailed]] into this trope if fanfic writers want him or her to be [[Ron the Death Eater|made unsupportable]] as a perceived threat to a [[Die for Our Ship|pairing they support]].
* Jenny from ''[[Ebony Dark'ness
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* Katharine Parker in ''[[Working Girl]]'' starts off as a BISC before progressing to being a [[Devil in Plain Sight]].
* In ''[[Legally Blonde (film)|Legally Blonde]] 2'', the senator (played by Sally Field) is sweet and kind to Elle, becoming a mentor and friend quickly. She throws Elle under the bus the first chance she gets to gain a political edge.
* {{spoiler|Lotso}} in ''[[Toy Story (franchise)|Toy Story]] 3''. In the ''Art of Toy Story 3'' book, the revelation of
* Eve Harrington in ''[[All About Eve]]''.
* Mother Gothel in ''[[Tangled]]'' pretends to be Rapunzel's loving mother, but she's only using her for her own ends.
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* Darth Zannah sort of qualifies. In ''Dynasty of Evil'', she makes an act of being nice to people just to get favors, and she seduces a guy in book 2, resulting in his death.
** Given the Sith philosophy towards self-realization, which means first fulfilling one's capacity to experience ''genuine'' affection, friendship, passion, and love (thus, directly rejecting the Jedi concept of detachment), and then attaining personal liberation and fulfilling one's capacity to experience pain and loss by betraying the objects of such affection in the deepest imaginable ways...really, not only does this come with the territory, Bitch in Sheep's Clothing is probably the ''best'' outcome which can be hoped for.
* [[Harry Potter/Characters/Ministry of Magic|Dolores Umbridge]] in ''[[
** During his school years, Tom Riddle is this. While Dumbledore can see through his facade, everyone else believes him to be an honorable, hardworking student, and a hero who caught the Heir of Slytherin.
* Burgo Fitzgerald in ''Can You Forgive Her?" (1864) by Anthony Trollope. Trollope included many others in his other novels.
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* Helen Vaughan in [[Arthur Machen]]'s ''[[The Great God Pan]]'' appears to be a beautiful, charming woman. In reality, she's the [[Humanoid Abomination]] daughter of a dark nature god. She will seduce and lure you in, and drive you to madness and suicide.
* Dame Olga from ''[[Ella Enchanted]]''. When we first meet her, she seems nice enough, at least compared to her daughters (especially Hattie). But once she marries Ella's father and discovers that he had no money, she quickly turns into the cruel, abusive, petty stepmother we know from the Cinderella tale, making Ella a slave in her own home and tormenting the girl after her father leaves for business.
* Nancy from ''[[Are You There, God? It's Me, Margaret.
* Grandmother in [[L. M. Montgomery]]'s ''[[Jane of Lantern Hill]]''. She's a sweet-looking little old lady, but sabotages her daughter's marriage, and can, and does, make anything sound like an insult.
* ''[[In Death]]'': A number of the murderers can qualify as this. A notable example would be Ava from ''Strangers In Death''. Eve actually refers to the act Ava puts on as a suit, and Eve has to poke at it to eventually make Ava drop the act.
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== Live
* ''[[Bad Girls]]'' had Natalie Buxton. She was introduced to both the viewers and the other characters as a nice-as-pie, meek, timid woman who wasn't in jail for much of a crime. Turns out she's a paedophile with a tendency to beat the crap out of people if she doesn't get her own way. She eventually becomes the Top Dog because everybody is too scared to challenge her.
* One time ''[[Star Trek: The Next Generation]]'' character, Nicholas Locarno, while nice and charming on the outside, was actually a really nasty person beneath the surface, according to [[Word of God]].
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* [[The Nostalgia Chick]] combined this with a [[Sarah Palin]] impression to try and [[The Starscream|overthrow]] the Critic during [[Kickassia]].
** To a less homicidal extent, how she is normally. [[Comedic Sociopathy|There's]] [[Manipulative Bitch|something]] [[Broken Bird|darker]] underneath that [[Girlish Pigtails|cute]], [[Bow Ties Are Cool|girly]] [[Hair Decorations|exterior]].
* In the Travel Channel website-original animation "[[No Reservations|Anthony Bourdain's]] Alternative Universe", we see a fictional side of travel hostess Samantha Brown we don't normally see on the air, in the episode [https://web.archive.org/web/20130820200025/http://www.travelchannel.com/
* ''[[Survival of the Fittest]]'' v4 has Aaron Hughes as a male example. He starts out wanting to start an escape plot, but throughout the game, he [[Manipulative Bastard|manipulate]] every single character he comes across, and eventually decides to play the game conventionally while still keeping the guise of the leader in an escape plot. Ashlie Jackson of ''Evolution'' is also hinted to have been one of these before being put in the experiments, and although her power rendered her unable to pull it off as much, she attempts to pull off a [[Cute Mute]] facade at one point. And as early as his first appearance, Simon Leroy of ''Virtua'' is already shaping up to be a male example, who started out the game attempting to get [[Shrinking Violet|Sycanus Appletin]]'s trust by pretending to be a [[Nice Guy]]...while planning to [[Manipulative Bastard|use her trust to his advantage]].
* Solange of the [[Whateley Universe]] started out this way. As a frosh, she was kind and understanding to Montana even though he looked like a sasquatch... and then she publicly humiliated him. All so she could force her way into the top clique of the school.
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== Real Life ==
* One of [[The Thirty-Six Stratagems]] is "Xiao li cang dao", translating as "hide a dagger behind a smile". Maintain a facade of friendliness while you plot.
* As mentioned above: your typical self-proclaimed [https://web.archive.org/web/20160115035317/http://www.heartless-bitches.com/rants/niceguys/niceguys.shtml Nice Guy.]
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