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* Rainn Wilson who plays the hopelessly delusional and humourless Dwight Schrute on ''[[The Office]]'' has been described as extremely nice.
* Michael K. Williams,who plays the vicious and immoral thief Omar Little in ''The Wire'',is a very Nice man who originally wanted to be a dancer.
* Chris Barrie, contrary to his character of Arnold Rimmer on ''[[Red Dwarf]]'', is actually a pretty nice guy who gets along with the rest of the cast enough to participate in the commentaries. Of all the cast, he's also the one who does the most conventions and clearly loves meeting the fans.
* The late Frank Silva, best known for playing the [[Nightmare Fuel|scary]] [[Complete Monster]] [[Big Bad|Killer BOB]] in ''[[Twin Peaks]]'', is said to have been a very nice man with a great sense of humor.
* The Plunderbird Boys from ''[[Robot Wars (TV series)|TheRobot Plunderbird BoysWars]]'' can be seen as this on a more minor scale; their entire gimmick was that there were hard boys who wanted to see violence and carnage. In series 2, they were unanimously voted to win the good sportsmanship award, which speaks volumes about their in-the-pits behaviour. However, even their 'mean characters' were shown to have at least some degree of respect and concern for their fellow competitors, so the difference isn't as large as with most entries, although the character's reaction to the aforementioned award does show the trope in action.
** Most of the teams who were in Extreme Series 1 got a bit of this, having been told to ham up their fighting talk for the cameras. Team Diotoir got the worst of it though, being made to kidnap the host's son and vandalize another team's robot. Those incidents were of course staged and couldn't be further from the truth - the team were renowned for their sportsmanship an camaraderie in the pits, receiving the Sportsmanship award three times and even lending their old robot to a team whose entry had broken down.
* [[Summer Glau]] has played robots, psycho stalkers and government killing machines, and but she's one of the nicest actors in Hollywood.
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