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{{trope}}
{{quote|'''Faith:''' Thanks, sugar daddy!
'''The Mayor:''' Now, Faith, I don't find that sort of thing amusing. I'm a family man. Now, let's kill your little friend.
|''[[Buffy the Vampire Slayer]]'', "Dopplegangland"}}
Some villains [[Even Evil Has Standards|have standards]]. They might have no problem gunning cops down in cold blood, but [[Wouldn't Hurt a Child|they aren't going to do anything to children]]. Or they might be willing to blow up a city for [[Knight Templar|a holy cause]], but not for [[Greed|money]]. Somewhere they have to draw the line - because, if that line doesn't exist, [[What Is Evil?|good and evil cease to have any meaning at all]].
And for a handful of villains, that line is, "Anything [[The Brady Bunch|the Brady kids]] learned [[An Aesop]] about." Yes, these are bad guys who believe in good old fashioned family values. Being a kingpin in the international drug trade might be fine, but giving alcohol to minors, most certainly not! It's their duty as a loyal citizen to show respect and admiration for the local police, but nothing says they can't do that ''and'' bribe the cops into murdering their enemies. [[Sex Is Evil and I Am Horny|And, of course]], sexual intercourse outside of marriage is strictly prohibited ... unless it's [[Rape Tropes|non-consensual]], then they can just go wild.
Not all examples of this trope are as self-contradictory as the ones above, though. In some cases, promoting family values may be the ''reason'' the villain is doing all these horrible things, making them a [[Knight Templar]]. And in other cases, the family (wo)man routine might simply be an act, designed to ensure that they remain a [[Villain
But then again, some just don't seem to see anything odd about speaking an arcane ritual to [[The Legions of Hell|summon horrific demons into the mortal plane]], then lecture some kids about saying "[[Gosh Dang It to Heck|darn]]" instead of "damn." <ref>Granted, it could be because they know a thing or two about damnation firsthand and are insulted to hear those young whippersnappers refer to it so triflingly...</ref>
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Compare [[Straight Edge Evil]] and [[Evil Virtues]]. Contrast with [[Moral Dissonance]] or [[Values Dissonance]], where an ostensibly family-friendly character can ''unintentionally'' appear villainous to some.
== [[Anime]] and [[Manga]] ==▼
▲{{examples|Examples:}}
▲== [[Anime and Manga]] ==
* Claude "Torch" Weaver, one of the [[Carnival of Killers]] in ''[[Black Lagoon]]'' is a religious man who won't touch alcohol and is pretty much the only person in the entire cast who never swears. He's also a completely insane [[Pyromaniac]].
== [[
* In contrast to his mostly depraved and foul-mouthed supervillain colleagues, the Doll-Master in ''[[Wanted (Comic Book)|Wanted]]'' is very much a
* While their styles of parenting range from hands off to strict/abusive, the supervillain parents in ''[[Runaways (comics)|Runaways]]'' [[Villains Out Shopping|maintain normal upper middle class lives when not involved in villainy]] and have typical expectations of their children being successful and want to make the world a better place for them, and believe they are doing what is best for them... by letting the Gibborim destroy and remake it so their kids can live in paradise. The series is practically the poster child for [[Even Evil Has Loved Ones]] / [[Evil Parents Want Good Kids]].
== [[Film]] ==
* A popular trope in gangster movies like [[
== [[Literature]] ==
* In ''[[Under the Dome]]'' Second Selectman Big Jim Rennie is a born again Christian who has refused to swear or drink since his conversion, and believes highly in family unity. That doesn't stop him from being a [[Complete Monster]] who plots a hostile takeover of the town, fills the police force with rape-happy [[Mooks]], sets up the largest meth lab in the country, and kills members of his family. It's for "the good of the town," afterall.
* [[Harry Potter
== [[Live
* ''[[Buffy the Vampire Slayer]]'' villain Mayor Richard Wilkins III is really the pinnacle of this trope. He's made deals with dozens of different demons, founded a town specifically so he could lure in people to be killed by monsters, orders numerous thefts and
** Really, what makes the Mayor interesting is that there's never really ''any'' hint that his personality is the
** In one episode he celebrates an evil scheme well done with a hearty "Gosh I'm feeling chipper! ''Who's for a root beer!?''"
** When he realizes his plan's gone
* ''[[Star Trek
* René Benoit in ''[[
* Gustavo "Gus" Fring in ''[[Breaking Bad]]'' is this to a T. Since nobody save for a select few even knows that he's the biggest meth kingpin in the Southwest, it allows him to put on a perfect [[Villain
* [[
* In the Japanese series ''[[Kamen Rider Double]]'', this was the Nazca Dopant's redeeming quality. He was perfectly willing to sell self-destructive and addicting superpowers to greedy and corrupt adults, but was horrified to find them being given to children as test subjects! Despite being [[The Dragon]] at the time, he teams up with [[The Hero|Double]] to save the children. However, {{spoiler|''[[Redemption Equals Death]]'' his own wife, who remains evil throughout the whole series, kills him.}}
* While there is some serious variability in how good they are at it, most of the mobsters in ''[[The Sopranos]]'' at least attempt to do this.
* In ''[[
* In the first season of ''[[
== [[Western Animation]] ==
* The "Red Hood" from ''[[Batman: Under the Red Hood]]'', upon taking over the local drug trade, informs the mobsters that they are NOT to sell their wares to kids... or he'll kill them.
* ''[[The Simpsons (animation)|The Simpsons]]'' had this in Hank Scorpio, a power-mad super villain... [[Pet the Dog|who wanted to make sure all his employees and their families lived safe, comfortable lives]].
== [[Real Life]] ==
* Mob boss "Diamond Jim" Colosimo had no problems running prostitution rings and illegal gambling in Chicago, but when Prohibition went into effect he refused to have anything to do with bootlegging. (Within five months Colosimo was shot to death and his second-in-command Johnny Torrio had moved into alcohol smuggling, but that would be [[The Starscream|another trope]].)
* A lot of mob bosses are like this. Little Italy in New York used to be one of the safest neighborhoods in the city, because people knew what would happen to anyone dumb enough to knock down a little old lady and steal her purse. A particularly noteworthy example would be Joseph Profaci, the namesake of the Profaci crime family, who once allegedly had a man strangled to death with a rosary for stealing a chalice from Profaci's church.
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