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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 (Literature)/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...

* 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.

* The ''[[Father Brown]]'' series, by [[GK Chesterton]], uses this heavily with its titular character. In his first appearance, the [[Gentleman Thief]] Flambeau is shocked that a quiet, unassuming priest can not only outwit him but knows more than him about criminal behaviour. Father Brown points out that of course priests know these things; people ''confess'' to them.

* Does not even begin to describe [[Disgaea|Sereph Lamington]], a [[Chessmaster]] grade example.

* [[Mega Man X]], a [[Neutral Good]] [[Reluctant Warrior]] who lives in an increasingly [[Crapsack World]] infested with [[The Virus]], capable of turning even his best friend against him. Often referred to as 'too trusting' in-universe and 'emo' outside of it because he doesn't like killing people. He's also an [[Sealed Good in A Can]] [[Super Prototype]] [[One-Man Army]] with ''lots'' of combat experience and what he can't handle his aforementioned [[Mega Man Zero|best friend]] ''will.'' He also ends up ruling the world, basically because he's the only person that could manage it. There was talk of having him hit the [[Despair Event Horizon]], [[Knight Templar|lose that compassion]] and become the [[Big Bad]] of the [[Mega Man Zero|sequel series]]. That would have been ''bad.''

* Duessel from ''[[Fire Emblem the Sacred Stones (Video Game)|Fire Emblem the Sacred Stones]]''.

 

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