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== Film ==
* Abbe Coulmier from ''[[Quills]]'' is a compassionate priest who believes [[Rousseau Was Right]], and serves as a foil to the Marquis de Sade. While it initially seems like de Sade has the advantage, Coulmier turns out to be more than capable of zinging him right back, and punctures de Sade's pretensions to evil.
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* Georgia Byrd from ''[[Last Holiday]]'' might seem naïve, but she is a very good saleswoman and gives some solid advice to other characters. Despite all of Kragen’s attempts to humiliate her, Georgia is usually one step ahead of him.
* Batman is portrayed as such in [[The Dark Knight Saga]]. In fact, most of the plot of ''The Dark Knight'' revolves around the Joker trying to get Batman to break his moral code and prove that, deep down, everybody is just like him and that [[Silly Rabbit, Idealism Is for Kids|Batman's idealism is misplaced]]. He fails miserably.
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== Literature ==
* [[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.
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** 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]]''.
** 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...
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** He doesn't build a [[Death Ray]], he builds a device that can summon forth energy from the environment. ''[[Street Fighter (film)|LIKE LIGHTNING!]]''
*** This is apparently accepted under Europa's cultural definition of 'death ray.'
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** When he does flip out and [[Lampshade Hanging|brings this up]], he scares some very hard to scare people, while delivering an [[Curb Stomp Battle|incredible beatdown]] to the oversized war criminal sent to retrieve him. And at the end:
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** 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.
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