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Examples of [[{{TOPLEVELPAGE}}]] characters in [[{{SUBPAGENAME}}]] include:
* Don Vito Corleone from ''[[The Godfather]]''. Along with the politeness and generosity that carried over to his film incarnation, it's also established that he really does prefer to negotiate, spending literally ''hours'' trying to resolve disagreements between other crime lords [[The Stoic|without reacting to any insults or jokes made at his expense.]] Plus, he's shown to be [[Even Evil Has Standards|utterly revolted]] when he discovers that the film studio executive Jack Woltz spends his afternoons molesting young girls - to the point that it became one of the reasons for the decapitation of Woltz's horse, Khartoum.
* Of course, the classic here is "Long" John Silver of ''[[Treasure Island]]''. Heck, even the ''writer'' ends up liking this guy too much for his own good.
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* Chichikov, [[Villain Protagonist]] of ''[[Dead Souls]]''.
* The miller in ''[[Krabat]]''.
* The [[Classical Movie Vampire|old Count Magpyr]] in [[
* ''[[In Death]]'': the murderer in ''Portrait In Death'' is this. He truly believes that he is doing mankind a great service by killing young innocent people. In fact, he truly seems like a [[Nice Guy]], if you ignore the murdering part.
* [[Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea]] deconstructs this trope with [[The Captain]] Nemo, who is a [[Wicked Cultured]], [[Nice Guy|extremely polite person]] that prefers to put the protagonists in [[Gilded Cage
* ''Sisterhood'' series by [[Fern Michaels]]: Henry "Hank" Jellicoe most certainly has elements of this, complete with the reveal that he had reporter Virgil Anders beaten up to the point of being wheelchair-bound and put in a [[Gilded Cage]] for calling him a "monster" in a book he was writing about Jellicoe title "Man, Myth, Monster" in ''[[Deja Vu]]''. Although the fact that he talked to Anders like they were best friends for a few minutes after putting him in the cage would indicate that Jellicoe is actually [[Faux Affably Evil]].
* [[Gone (novel)|Caine]] is a perfectly pleasant, polite person, until you imply that he ''doesn't'' deserve to rule the world.
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* Mrs Maudsley in [[The Go-Between]] is kind enough to Leo even if she doesn't understand him. But her determination to see her daughter married into the aristocracy causes an awful lot of damage.
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