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Compare and contrast with [[Wide-Eyed Idealist]], [[Good Is Not Nice]], [[Gentleman and a Scholar]], [[Beware the Nice Ones]], [[Crouching Moron, Hidden Badass]], [[Evil Cannot Comprehend Good]], and [[Good Is Old-Fashioned]]. Also see [[Rousseau Was Right]] and [[Incorruptible Pure Pureness]].

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== [[Anime]] and [[Manga]] ==

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== [[Literature]] ==

* [[Discworld]]:

* ~~[[Discworld|~~Carrot Ironfoundersson]] greets everyone by name, is perpetually polite and cheerful, and selflessly volunteers to help anyone in need. But anyone who mistakes him for an easy mark ''quickly'' learns otherwise.

** Carrot Ironfoundersson greets everyone by name, is perpetually polite and cheerful, and selflessly volunteers to help anyone in need. But anyone who mistakes him for an easy mark ''quickly'' learns otherwise.

{{quote|And that was Carrot at work. He could sound so innocent, so friendly, so... ''stupid,'' in a puppy-dog kind of way, and then he became this big block of steel and you walked right into it. }}

** While Sam Vimes is a textbook example of [[Good Is Not Nice]], his wife Sybil is an example of this trope. She's always unflappably polite and kind-hearted (even to [[Bile Fascination|Nobby Nobbs]]), but beneath her lighthearted exterior is a razor-sharp mind, as demonstrated when she negotiated Ankh-Morpork's fat trade with the Dwarf King in ''[[~~Discworld/The Fifth Elephant|~~The Fifth Elephant]]''.

** While Sam Vimes is a textbook example of [[Good Is Not Nice]], his wife Sybil is an example of this trope. She's always unflappably polite and kind-hearted (even to [[Bile Fascination|Nobby Nobbs]]), but beneath her lighthearted exterior is a razor-sharp mind, as demonstrated when she negotiated Ankh-Morpork's fat trade with the Dwarf King in ''[[The Fifth Elephant]]''.

** And then there's Nanny Ogg, the [[Cool Old Lady]] who's always up for a good drink, a good smoke, and a <s>good</s> ribald song. Yet she's smart enough to keep ''[[Never Mess with Granny|Granny Weatherwax]]'' in check...

** And then there's Nanny Ogg, the [[Cool Old Lady]] who's always up for a good drink, a good smoke, and a <s>good</s> ribald song. Yet she's smart enough to keep ''[[Never Mess with Granny|Granny Weatherwax]]'' in check.

* In ''[[Good Omens]]'', the ever-polite angel Aziraphale occasionally gets visits from the [[Legitimate Businessmen's Social Club|representatives of property developers]] who are [[Shame If Something Happened|very concerned about the possible risk of fire to his bookshop.]]. He listens to them cheerfully and politely sends them on their way, and ''they never return''...

* In ''[[The Hunger Games]]'', Peeta is kind and patient and {{spoiler|totally kills people in the arena, including finishing off one girl in cold blood while he's in the Career pack}}, besides being three steps ahead when it comes to manipulating the on-camera narrative.

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* Wedge Antilles, in his [[Star Wars|film]] and early [[Star Wars Expanded Universe|EU]] appearances, was just an [[Ace Pilot]], leader of Rogue Squadron, and loyal to his friends and cause. His [[A Day in the Limelight|day in the limelight]], the [[X Wing Series]], showed some promising hints of interpersonal savvy, tactical insight, and further loyalty to principles rather than organization. This is turned [[Up to Eleven]] by the time of his [[Aaron Allston]]-written appearances in the ''[[New Jedi Order]]'' and ''[[Legacy of the Force]]''. He's adept at [[Xanatos Speed Chess]], an incredibly quick thinker, adept at cutting past what people are saying to what they ''mean'' and their underlying goals, [[Arson, Murder, and Jaywalking|and a loving husband and father who is deeply principled and moral]]. Somehow, people keep [[Underestimating Badassery|underestimating him]].

* In ''[[The Lord of the Rings]]'', Frodo makes it very clear to Gollum that he is well aware that Gollum is trying to think of a way to betray the hobbits and take back the ring. Sam is surprised at this because he had assumed Frodo was far too good a person to be able to understand deception and treachery. Sam admits that he (and probably Gollum as well) "had confused kindness with blindness."

== [[Live-Action TV]] ==

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** Part of Boston Rob getting Uchenna & Joyce and Gretchen & Meredith on a faster flight in Season 7 (when Rob, in order to mess with their heads, mentioned a fictional earlier flight, which just turned out to exist) was him talking about how Uchenna & Joyce couldn't do anything for themselves.

* Eiji Hino from ''[[Kamen Rider OOO]]'' may seem like a carefree fool, however underneath his simple exterior lies a rather cunning mind.

== [[Video Games]] ==

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{{quote|'''Gil:''' Well, you '''know what'''? I can '''do''' crazy. I '''really can'''. And it looks like I'm going to '''have''' to. Agatha is in danger. This '''whole town''' is in danger. If I'm going to be able to help her '''at all''', I'm going to have to give up all this '''"being reasonable"''' garbage and show you '''idiots''' what kind of madboy you're '''''really dealing with!''''' [Smashes Vole apparently through a wall, [[Beat]], sudden wide eyes] ...oh. Oh, ''no.'' This must be [[Knight Templar|how my '''father''' feels]] - '''''all the time!'''''}}

** Gil's probably just as much of a case of '[[Beware the Nice Ones|nice is not harmless]],' though. You could even make a case for filing him under '[[Good Is Not Nice]],' especially lately, despite being an [[Overlord, Jr.]]. The...[[Webcomic Time|three-year day]]...since the above incident has not been easy on him.

== [[Western Animation]] ==

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