Devil in Plain Sight: Difference between revisions

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== Anime and Manga ==

* Hiruma from ''[[Eyeshield 21]]'' plays with this trope; he's a conniving, scheming, trigger-happy [[Magnificent Bastard]] and doesn't care who knows it (his name can even be read as "[[Meaningful Name|devil in broad daylight]]"). Also, he avoids repercussions for his actions not by avoiding or sucking up to authority figures, but by ''[[blackmail]]ing'' them.

** And he ''looks'' pretty devilish, to boot.

* ''I Luv Halloween''. A black comedy of the darkest kind. About a group of amoral trick-or-treaters who want their Halloween candy even in the midst of an alien invasion and zombie apocalypse. One of the characters is Devil-lad, a hooded young boy wearing a devil's mask who patiently goes along with the group's crazy hijinks. The other trick-or-treaters note he smells like sulfur. Proven in the second volume, when he nonchalantly rises from a crater after being in the middle of a nuclear explosion. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qxDZ7DQmYwA&feature=related

* As most [[Muggles]] in the [[Marvel Universe]] are [[Too Dumb to Live]], none of [[Villain with Good Publicity|Norman Osborn]]'s previous actions prevent him from doing whatever he wants.

* Dr. Doom makes frequent attempts to take over the world that would be considered acts of war by real world standards, and most governments in the world just ignore him. No wonder he feels he better suited to rule the world.

** This may count as [[Fridge Brilliance]] though: maybe world leaders have gotten the clue that all Doom wants is to keep having his little tiff with Reed Richards, so they just lay low and let the [[Fantastic Four]] deal with him to avoid getting targeted and devastated by Doom rather than just battered a bit in the crossfire.

* Rhoda Penmark in ''Bad Seed'' personifies this trope.

* ''[[American Psycho]]'': Patrick Bateman—despite the fact that he [[Sarcastic Confession|directly tells his friends]] that he is a sadistic serial killer.

* ''[[There Will Be Blood]]'': The main character is clearly one of these, complete with the [[Meaningful Name]] of Daniel Plainview. How much better his enemies the Sundays are is up to debate. At least {{spoiler|until the bodies begin piling up.}}

* ''[[Hot Fuzz]]'': Simon Skinner, owner of the local supermarket. He often behaves extraordinarily creepy around Sergeant Nick Angel, having a bit of a [[Psychotic Smirk]], making puns about killing and showing up around the murder scenes. The fact that the murders committed lead Angel to believe that Skinner is responsible in order to get more land for his supermarket doesn't help either (though [[Red Herring|that wasn't the true nature]]. {{spoiler|Turns out Angel's only part right.}})

* Jan Rosencrantz in ''[[Vagrant Story]]''. Everyone knows he's a traitor and an all-round bastard. It's just that no one ''cares''. He turns out to be more powerful and ambitious than the characters had anticipated.

** And many times more ruthless.

* ''[[Shin Megami Tensei]]'' gave us [[Louis Cypher]]. We all know about that one, though.

** Ironically though, even if you do realize that, he's actually a pretty nice guy personality wise, and in some games he has a really strong claim to being considered a good guy anyway, especially compared to just how [[Eviler Than Thou]] his competition can be.

* ''[[Kingdom Hearts: Birth By Sleep]]'': Master Xehanort might as well be carrying a neon sign reading "I am evil, nyahahaha". Nobody, other than Yen Sid, seems to notice, not even the guy who ''fought him once before in a battle of light against darkness''.

* In ''World of Warcraft'', Onyxia posed as Lady Katrana Prestor in order to give the very young king Anduin Wrynn bad advice that kept Stormwind weak.

 

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