Evil All Along: Difference between revisions

* {{spoiler|Jack Vessalius}} of ''[[Pandora Hearts (Manga)|Pandora Hearts]]''.

* ''[[Pokémon (Anime)|Pokémon]]''

** Other examples exist, like in the movie ''[[Pokémon Jirachi Wishmaker (Anime)|Pokémon Jirachi Wishmaker]]'', where Butler seems like a good guy, but is actually evil and tries to abuse Jirachi. He does make a [[Heel Face Turn]], however.

** And Domino from ''[[Pokémon Mewtwo Returns (Anime)|Pokémon Mewtwo Returns]]'', who seems like a good-natured ditzy teenage girl but actually a mean, hyper-efficient Team Rocket operative who is working directly under Giovanni.

* In ''[[Digimon Adventure 02 (Anime)|Digimon Adventure 02]]'', Ken was the evil Digimon emperor all along. This is made ''glaringly obvious'' from his first appearance onwards.

* Kabuto from ''[[Naruto (Manga)|Naruto]]'' actually did manage to pull off the "helpful, harmless stranger" routine pretty well. From his [[Affably Evil|personality]], to his [[Minored in Asskicking|appearance]] there's very little to tip you off to his being a threat. {{spoiler|He was trained from childhood specifically for this, having worked as a spy on behalf of the Hidden Leaf Village from within all of the other major ninja villages.}}

* Blackbeard from ''[[One Piece (Manga)|One Piece]]'' encourages Luffy to continue to pursue his dreams after he is mocked by another pirate crew. This guy would go on to defeat Luffy's elder brother Ace, and hand him over to the World Government. Once his and Luffy's goals crossed over in Impel Down, he gloated about his in his face, provoking a small fight.

* In chapter 50 of ''[[Mirai Nikki (Manga)|Mirai Nikki]]'', Akise claims that {{spoiler|Yuno is the actual villain, who used Yukiteru, and plans to drive him to the brink of despair and kill him in order for her to become God. Of course, [[Single-Target Sexuality|Akise]] is the one who said it, so who knows if it's actually true}}. {{spoiler|As of chapter 53, it seems that Akise was right and wrong at the same time. [[Yandere|Yuno wants to kill him, but only so they can be]] ''[[Yandere|together forever]]'' via an endless cycle of [[Peggy Sue|Peggy Sues]]. [[Mind Screw|Maybe.]]}}

* In the last minutes of the final episode of ''[[Panty and Stocking With Garterbelt (Anime)|Panty and Stocking With Garterbelt]]'' {{spoiler|we find out that Stocking is actually a demon.}}

* {{spoiler|Walter}} from ''[[Hellsing (Manga)|Hellsing]]'' (only in the manga).

* ''[[Bleach (Manga)|Bleach]]''

* Rasati and Lillia's guardian in ''[[Elemental Gelade (Manga)|Elemental Gelade]]''. He broadcasts it from a mile away, but Rasati doesn't seem to notice.

* {{spoiler|Fuuma Kotarou}} from ''[[Nabari no Ou (Manga)|Nabari no Ou]]''.

* In Disney's ''[[Aladdin (Disney)|Aladdin]]'', Jafar was the bad guy all along. This is fairly obvious to the audience; the characters themselves find out the hard way when Jafar tries to have Aladdin murdered, then steals the lamp and takes over.

* In Disney's ''[[Tarzan (Disney)|Tarzan]]'', in turns out Clayton was planning all along to capture and sell Tarzan's gorilla family.

* Obviously, Ursula was it in Disney's version of ''[[The Little Mermaid (Disney)|The Little Mermaid]]'', but that one was very much expected.

* Scar in ''[[The Lion King (Disney)|The Lion King]]'' was evil all along, he even killed his brother when he had the chance.

* In the movie ''[[Ice Age (Animation)|Ice Age]]'', Diego is [[Evil All Along]]. He makes a [[Heel Face Turn]] however, and becomes a member of the crew in the sequels.

* In the ''[[Kim Possible (Animation)|Kim Possible]]'' [[The Movie|movie]] ''So The Drama'', the boy for whom Kim falls turns out to be evil.

* In ''[[Atlantis the Lost Empire (Disney)|Atlantis the Lost Empire]]'', Rourke and the other mercenaries (basically, everyone on the expedition ''but'' Milo) were [[Evil All Along]]. Fortunately a [[Downer Ending]] is averted when everyone but Rourke and Helga do a [[Heel Face Turn]].

* ''[[Toy Story (Animation)|Toy Story]]''

* ''[[Indiana Jones (Franchise)|Indiana Jones]]''

** Used in ''[[Raiders of the Lost Ark (Film)|Raiders of the Lost Ark]]'', in which the guide at the beginning runs away with the treasure.

** Neither Professor Jones Sr. or Jr. smelled the [[Honey Trap]] in ''[[The Last Crusade (Film)|The Last Crusade]]''. Was anyone else surprised?

** Also in ''[[Indiana Jones and The Kingdom of The Crystal Skull (Film)|Indiana Jones and The Kingdom of The Crystal Skull]]'', Indy's friend {{spoiler|turns out to have lied about being good near the end of the movie, though it's kind of obvious even before he admits it. He's shown having left a trail of beacons for the Soviets to follow.}}

* In ''[[Star Wars]] [[Revenge of the Sith (Film)|Episode III: Revenge of the Sith]]'', Senator Palpatine turns out to be Darth Sidious, the head of the Sith. [[The Chessmaster|And he's been playing both the Republic and the Separatists, along with the Jedi, for complete schmucks.]] Of course this was not a surprise to anyone seeing as people knew he'll be the emperor.

* ''[[Harry Potter (Literature)|Harry Potter]]''

* In [[Jack Vance (Creator)|Jack Vance]]'s ''The Gray Prince'', the titular Prince was a childhood friend to heroine Schaine; and for most of the book she firmly keeps in mind that, whatever his [[Big Bad Friend|present political views]], he once [[I Owe You My Life|saved her brother's life.]] And then it turns out he in fact hated their family to the point of deliberately allowing her brother to be horribly injured and only claimed credit for the deed later.

* Played with, though not exactly subverted, in [[Brandon Sanderson]]'s ''[[Warbreaker]]'', as {{spoiler|Denth the mercenary, who has been leading princess Vivenna in her quest to overthrow the government of T'Telir (under the pretense of following her orders), betrays her, murders her best friend, and tries to steal her [[Life Energy|Breath]].}} She is surprised, but {{spoiler|since he had ''quite literally'' been warning her the entire time that [[Exactly What It Says On the Tin|he could not be trusted]], she felt kinda stupid, too.}} Best line: {{spoiler|[[Running Gag|"Do you know what I hate most about being a mercenary, Princess?]] Fulfilling the stereotypes. Everyone assumes they can't trust you. The thing is, [[I Warned You|they really can't.]]"}}

* ''[[The Dresden Files (Literature)|The Dresden Files]]'': {{spoiler|Martin}} in ''Changes'' turns out to be a Red Court infiltrator. {{spoiler|[[Subverted]] in the end, as it turns out he performed a [[Heel Face Turn]] long ago and his apparent betrayal of the heroes was actually part of a [[Batman Gambit]] to wipe out the ''entire freaking Red Court'' with their own curse. Only Harry knows the truth.}}

* Several times in [[Charles Dickens (Creator)|Dickensian]] [[The Parody|parody]] ''[[Bleak Expectations (Radio)|Bleak Expectations]]'', the person helping Pip Bin with his latest scheme, such as the engineer who Pip employed to build a sewage system under London, is [[Paper-Thin Disguise|blatantly]] his evil nemesis Mr Gently Benevolent (in that case planning to dig out the capital, float it across the Channel with hot air balloons and sell it to the French).

* In ''[[Dead or Alive (Video Game)|Dead or Alive: Dimensions]]'' Genra is revealed to be a manipulative and power-hungry man, willing to do anything to get revenge for playing second-fiddle to the main branch of the clan. and that his loyalty and honer is just a facade to hide it

* In the part in ''[[Mario and Luigi Partners In Time (Video Game)|Mario and Luigi: Partners in Time]]'' where Princess Peach gets a purple mushroom on her face -- it's not Peach. It was Princess Shroob the whole time, trying to take over the future castle.

* ''[[Fire Emblem (Video Game)|Fire Emblem]]''

** Lyon is an [[Fighting From the Inside|interesting case]] where he actually [[Genre Savvy|invokes this trope]] to get [[The Hero|Ephraim]] motivated to [[Death Seeker|kill him]] so that he [[Cannot Self Terminate|could]] [[Dying As Yourself|die]] before the [[Big Bad|Demon King]] brings about the end of the world. He claims that all of their time they spent together as children he was pumping the siblings for information for the invasion of their kingdom just to make Ephraim angry enough to actually kill him.

* ''[[Eternal Darkness (Video Game)|Eternal Darkness]]'': At the start of Lindsey's chapter, a friendly patron by the name of Paul Augustine leads him to the Cambodian temple where Mantorok is entombed. Then it turns out that Augustine was actually Pious using an illusion spell.

* In the Nintendo DS version of ''[[Drawn to Life (Video Game)|Drawn to Life]]: The Next Chapter'', you get a new Raposa to join the gang, named Sock. You find him in a town where he doesn't live, and he goes with you to find his real home. Well, you're supposed to believe that. Near the end of the game Sock asks for a valuable item, gets it from Jowee, and throws it away. He then appears to be Wilfre all along. It also goes for Mari a bit, although she just thought she would help everyone by it (she worked with Wilfre).

* In ''[[Pokémon Colosseum (Video Game)|Pokémon Colosseum]]'', the mayor of Phenac city is actually the head of Cipher. In ''Pokémon XD'', the same goes for Mr. Verich.

* In ''[[Pokémon Ranger (Video Game)|Pokémon Ranger]]'' an old man you help, named Gordon, is actually the head if the Go-Rock squad. In ''Pokémon Ranger: Shadows of Almia'', a teacher in the ranger school, Mr. Kincaid, actually works for an evil organisation Team Dim Sun. Also The organisation Altru and their leader Blake Hall are evil, while you don't know that till the end of the game.

* The mysterious wizard who occasionally helps you out in ''[[Final Fantasy Adventure (Video Game)|Final Fantasy Adventure]]'' is eventually revealed as [[Big Bad|Julius]], who's been using you the entire time to get his hands on the girl and her Mana Pendant. [[Retcon|Retconned]] out in the ''[[Sword of Mana (Video Game)|Sword of Mana]]'' remake.

* In her ''[[Blaz Blue (Video Game)|Blaz Blue]]: Calamity Trigger'' story mode, Noel is accompanied by a mild-mannered pacifist intelligence officer named "Hazama." [[Late Arrival Spoiler|If you've seen trailers for ''Continuum Shift'']], you'll recognize him as Terumi, the [[Complete Monster]] [[Hidden Villain|behind the events of ''Calamity Trigger'']]. What did he want from Noel? To [[Mind Rape]] her to take Nu-13's place as a living weapon of mass destruction.

* [[Playing With a Trope|Played with]] in ''[[Knights of the Old Republic (Video Game)|Knights of the Old Republic]]'', when it turns out that {{spoiler|[[Tomato in The Mirror|YOU, THE PLAYER are]] Darth Revan, former [[Big Bad]] of the setting, bud didn't know it thanks to [[Laser-Guided Amnesia]] from the [[A Wizard Did It|Jedi Council]], leading to an [[Inverted Trope|Inverse]] of [[Criminal Amnesiac]] if you decide to return to [[The Dark Side]]}}.

* Maria in ''[[Silent Hill 2 (Video Game)|Silent Hill 2]]''. To add insult to injury, you spend a lot of her "good guy" time trying to keep her alive.

* In ''[[Paladins Quest (Video Game)|Paladins Quest]]'', the student who goes with you to the forbidden tower on the academy grounds and goads you into accidentally freeing Dal Gren at the very beginning of the game is revealed at the end of it to be the [[Big Bad]] [[Evil Overlord]] Zaygos in disguise.

* ''[[Kingdom Hearts (Video Game)|Kingdom Hearts]]'': Ansem, the researcher who was studying [[The Heartless]] whose reports the player has been running all across the worlds to find. Turns out, he's the [[Big Bad]] and [[The Man Behind the Man]]. {{spoiler|And both directly and indirectly responsible for everything that's been going wrong in the worlds for the past ten years or so! In a subversion, it turns out that the guy we were calling "Ansem" was actually the Heartless of the guy who stole Ansem's name. The real Ansem is more of an [[Anti-Hero]].}}

* In ''[[Bomberman (Video Game)|Bomberman 64]]'', {{spoiler|Sirius}} presents himself as Bomberman's ally and even aids him in reaching Altair's fortress and battling its guardians only so that he could steal the Omni Cube from Altair and use its power to conquer the universe. When his plan succeeds, he thanks Bomberman by putting "Destroy Planet Bomber" first on his list of things to do.

* We also have {{spoiler|Marx}} from ''[[Kirby Super Star (Video Game)|Kirby Super Star]]'' & ''Ultra''.

* The Soda Poppers from ''[[Sam and Max Freelance Police (Video Game)|Sam and Max Freelance Police]]'' want revenge in season 2 of the game series.

* In ''[[OFF (Video Game)|OFF]]'', {{spoiler|The Batter}} intended to destroy the world all along.

* {{spoiler|1=LeChuck}} in ''[[Tales of Monkey Island (Video Game)|Tales of Monkey Island]]''. {{spoiler|1=From the moment that Guybrush Threepwood inadvertently [[Humanity Ensues|turns him into a human]] who acts like a [[Harmless Villain]] and helps out on Guybrush and Elaine from Chapter 2 up to Chapter 4 (all the while wearing his [[Glamour|charming]] [[Instant Allegiance Artifact|belt buckle]]), then [[In the Back|kills Guybrush in a clever ambush]] as soon as our hero cures everyone of the [[Hate Plague|Pox of LeChuck]]; Elaine sees that "with or without all that voodoo, [LeChuck is] still nothing but an evil sack of scumm".}}

* In the alternate timeline of ''[[Dead Rising 2 (Video Game)|Dead Rising 2]]: Off the Record'', it's revealed that {{spoiler|Stacey}} was the [[Big Bad]] all along. As soon as the reveal occurs {{spoiler|her personality jumps straight from [[Girl Next Door]] to cruel and sadistic [[The Baroness|Baroness]]}}.

* ''[[Baten Kaitos (Video Game)|Baten Kaitos]]''

* The ''[[Assassin's Creed II (Video Game)|Assassin's Creed II]]'' "Lost Archives" DLC reveals that {{spoiler|Lucy had switched to the Templar's side before the first game's beginning. She even allowed Subject 16 to die from the bleeding effect when he discovered her betrayal. Everything she did throughout the games was a ploy she and Vidic devised to use Desmond to obtain the Apple of Eden. It would have worked too, [[Spanner in The Works|if Juno hadn't programmed the Apple to force Desmond to kill Lucy.]] She's a particularly unusual example in that she gets killed before getting a chance to reveal her evil side.}}

* In ''[[Bioshock (Video Game)|Bioshock]]'', this is part of the main plot twist that occurs about 2/3rds of the way through the game. ( {{spoiler|Turns out Atlas, your main ally and [[Mission Control]], was criminal mastermind Frank Fontaine all along.}})

* Happens practically [[Once Per Episode]] in the ''[[Dead Space (Video Game)|Dead Space]]'' series. {{spoiler|1=Kendra in ''Dead Space'', Diana and Marker-Nicole in ''[[Dead Space 2 (Video Game)|Dead Space 2]]'', Tyler in ''Dead Space Mobile'', and Colonel Bartlett in ''Dead Space 2: Severed'' are all revealed to be secretly evil bastards after spending a large amount of time as your primary ally/[[Mission Control]].}}

* ''[[Ys (Video Game)|Ys]] SEVEN'' plays around with a lot of JRPG tropes. One of the major plot twists is that the [[Big Bad]] of the game is actually, of all people, {{spoiler|Tia, the flower girl who you meet early on and who seemingly takes the role of potential main love interest. Unlike, say [[Lunar|Luna]] or [[Lufia]], Tia was secretly evil from the start instead of being forced into a [[Face Heel Turn]] midway through the game.}}

* In ''[[Dead Island (Video Game)|Dead Island]]'', {{spoiler|Colonel Ryder White, the [[Mission Control]] that leads you through most of the game, turns out to be secretly evil (although this actually doesn't come as much of a surprise to most of the characters, due to their strong anti-authority attitude). He betrays your group near the end, steals the experimental cure for the zombie virus, and ends up being the final boss of the game.}} This is complicated even further in the single-player DLC where you actually play as Ryder White, and {{spoiler|it's revealed he was never the [[Mission Control]] at all, and it was really Kevin (another supposed ally) who was impersonating Ryder the whole time over the radio, and who manipulated Ryder and the original 4 heroes into fighting each other.}}

* In ''[[The Gamers Alliance (Roleplay)|The Gamers Alliance]]'', several seemingly heroic characters such as [[The Mole|Cain]], [[Lady of Black Magic|Desdemona]], [[Tin Tyrant|Mordecai]] and [[Fiery Redhead|Vaetris]] end up having been evil all along during the Godslayer era.

* In ''[[Totally Spies (Animation)|Totally Spies]]'', Terrance and Dean first seem like Dean was evil all along. Then Dean turned out to be good all along. The same goes for the episode in which Tim Scam was introduced. It also applies for a lot of "villains of the day".

* In one episode of ''[[SpongeBob SquarePants (Animation)|SpongeBob SquarePants]]'', Plankton pretends he's going to help SpongeBob to become more assertive. He actually wanted everyone away from the beach, which all the viewers already knew.

* In season two of ''[[Winx Club (Animation)|Winx Club]]'', the new teacher appears to be an evil impostor in the end.

* ''[[Alpha Teens On Machines (Animation)|Alpha Teens On Machines]]'' has an interesting example of this trope. {{spoiler|In the first season, industrialist Mr. Lee seems to be the team's mentor. In the second season, [[The Reveal]] is that he's been a [[Corrupt Corporate Executive]] ''and'' a [[Mad Scientist]] all along. He uses [[Lego Genetics|DNA samples]] from the Alpha Teens to create the Mu-Team, an evil, superpowered group of [[Psycho Rangers]].)}}

* Gobsmack in ''[[Pearlie (Animation)|Pearlie]]''.

* {{spoiler|Cheif}} and {{spoiler|Lok}} from ''[[Tak and The Power of Juju]]''.

* In his first appearance on ''[[Kim Possible (Animation)|Kim Possible]],'' Kim doesn't realize that Monkey Fist is a villain.

* In season 2 of ''[[Wakfu (Animation)|Wakfu]]'', Qilby appears to be a friendly mentor to Yugo. He's actually an insane [[Omnicidal Maniac]] scheming to claim the Eliacube so he can go back to draining entire worlds of their wakfu.