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* Also by King, Harold from ''[[The Stand]]'' becomes this.

* Erzebet Bizecka of Alisa Libby's ''Blood Confession'' is an Insane Type. She's a charming and beautiful young lady who's doing an excellent job at leading her country out of difficult times. Not to mention how kind she is to her servants. Of course, that's just a plot to get them into her dungeon where she kills them and [[Blood Bath|bathes in their blood]] to preserve her youth and beauty.

* It's possible to read Agnes Wickfield in ''[[David Copperfield (novel)|David Copperfield]]'' as this, considering her life with an increasingly alcoholic, depressed father and an increasingly lecherous Uriah Heep, yet she never loses her smiling willingness to help others. As well, Miss Mowcher is a classic Depressed Type (though she was originally written as [[The Grotesque]], Dickens switched gears and made her a tragic figure who shields herself behind laughs, even at her own expense.)

* Glinda from ''[[Wicked (novel)|Wicked]]'' is essentially this. As such a high and mighty political figure she must keep a happy facade. Made even worse when her best friend, who happens to be the person she loves, is killed. She must act as if she ''hates'' her and tell pitiful lies about her. It's debatable if the musical or book version has it worse.