Family Values Villain: Difference between revisions

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.

 

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== [[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]].

** Really, what makes the Mayor interesting is that there's never really ''any'' hint that his personality is the mask—it remains consistent throughout, except for a brief, understandable [[Villainous Breakdown]] after Buffy puts his [[Morality Pet]] [[Like a Son to Me|Faith]] into a coma. Unlike many examples of this trope he's not really a [[Knight Templar]] ''or'' a hypocrite—he's just [[Affably Evil|a generally nice guy whose chief ambition]], incongruously, is [[Scaled Up|turning into a gigantic demon snake]].

** In one episode he celebrates an evil scheme well done with a hearty "Gosh I'm feeling chipper! ''Who's for a root beer!?''"

* ''[[Star Trek: Deep Space Nine|Star Trek Deep Space Nine]]'' Gul Dukat is this.

* René Benoit in ''[[NCIS]]''.

* 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 with Good Publicity]] act.

* 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.