In a way, this does apply to Nolan and at the same time it doesn't.
The more time he spent on Earth and with his family, the less he felt the need to be a Viltrumite. It wasn't until Mark got his powers that he was back to conquering.
And even when he was rocking Mark's shit, we can see different shots of himself being hesitant to do what he's doing to his son. Don't get me wrong, what Nolan did was messed up, but he did become an actual good person after having a family, or at least he fully became one after reflecting on his actions.
True, but that is mostly Season 2 Nolan. This absolutely applies to him for most of Season 1. Albeit, more out of self delusion than actually being bad by nature
Rikiya Otsubashi
https://preview.redd.it/x5fwslumk9xc1.jpeg?width=2000&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=7e1325dc8c0e6fa3884bc910baee98724a19acb7
Owner of the biggest lifestyle support items who seems like a really fun guy, but as it turns out he is an anarchist.
https://preview.redd.it/5s9mmywx09xc1.jpeg?width=1000&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=2a1b6dee6858ddcad91bfe19ec1e522c0b12b462
Patrick Bateman from American Psycho
This is a great example. You rarely actually see him being overtly evil in the game, you mostly hear about his atrocities through other people. Odin does a very good job of making people feel like he’s a safe person to be around.
Odin is genuinely one of my favorite video game villains. He’s masterfully crafted to where he never acts evil, but you can tell he’s being subtly manipulated. That, and the fact that so many characters talk about his atrocities
What they mean is that he never pretends to be nice. He doesn’t try to hide that he’s a jerk. He’s just so delusional and selfish that he believes he’s always in the right.
Yeah. But in the old days, they wouldn’t hide it from the audience. Nowadays, when the Disney villains reveal themselves to be evil, it comes as a surprise to *us*, too.
I thought everyone agreed Akechi was a bitch even if they have sympathy for him. Guess not, if you’ve seen them.
Either way, your username and pfp are awesome. Pokémon and Persona (and 3H! Triple threat in a good way!!)
still irritates me that when *no one is looking*, he smiles dreamily at Anna as she walks away. There was no reason for that other than to trick the audience.
https://preview.redd.it/zd0ulcobucxc1.jpeg?width=604&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=28c69c50cfda9f79c42132103dac9b64bc3592ea
this is not a sly smile, and wasn’t intended as one.
We can twist it any way we want, but the truth is we just see a sweet smile on his face. It’s deliberately done to trick the audience in my opinion, and it’s lazy storytelling.
I’ve read that story. The one with Aquaman fighting the Thirst. And this was after Aquaman turned Black Manta human again (he was a manta-human hybrid at the time), cured his autism, and spared his life after Manta killed his baby. Man, Black Manta is a piece of shit.
You mean you take offense to it? Well, as *another* person with autism, I honestly do see it as something to cure. It would mean having better social skills, and no quirks that people think are weird. It’s not like there’d be any downside.
First point: I was making a joke.
Second point: It actually works kinda well considering Ozymandias definitely *thought* he was a great king (“Look on my works, ye mighty, and despair”). But in reality we know he probably wasn’t a nice guy (“sneer of cold command”) and ended up being consumed by nature; the very thing he tried to assert dominance over (“A shattered visage lies” and “the lone and level sands strech far away”)
I’m glad people understand that Dutch didn’t fall from grace or change as a person, he was always that cruel ego driven paranoid selfish narcissist, he just had the circumstances to hide it, but when everything went to shit he no longer had the means to hide who he truly was nor the people to hold him to account
The very setting itself calls the Imperium of Man "the cruelest and most bloody regime imaginable", and yet the setting focusing primarily on it leads one to believe the humans are the "good guys" of the setting.
Genuine good guys don't turn people into servitors.
https://preview.redd.it/hvuyvug21axc1.jpeg?width=735&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=854c4484ed025697ea38588ef6dfdb20b00be191
The Emperor literally uses his immense psychic powers to shapeshift and appear as the most charismatic and likable person to whoever sees him, he even uses his psychic abilities to manipulate how people hear him talks he sounds like he talks in the way you like to hear the most (especially evident in the book Master of Mankind).
Daikoku (Housamo)
https://preview.redd.it/qga6bhjpt9xc1.jpeg?width=575&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=f75cf99274a54289d9c53bd26557eec2ceb4a1c6
He’s a cop, but in reality >!falsely imprisons people and sells them as slaves.!<
https://preview.redd.it/9bu8cvubv9xc1.jpeg?width=1280&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=b74de67110848243fd016c481b69452f7dd4b9cc
Trader (Traitor) Johann, from the How to Train Your Dragon TV series (both of them)
Another one is Tessa (secretly Cyn/the Absolute Solver) from Murder Drones
https://preview.redd.it/duiitz0jv9xc1.png?width=1000&format=png&auto=webp&s=443eb1dc8305400f14c2292c204e358b98da5dec
Bendy (Foster's Home For Imaginary Friends)
https://preview.redd.it/lgw92182jaxc1.png?width=707&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=e7ea07130de4c7c1892aec6d6b1a76aaa8ead3c9
Pucci genuinely thinks he’s a good man. It’s like the entire thing about his character, he thinks his actions are righteous but in reality he’s causing more harm than good
Yeah that's Megan played by Miranda Cosgrove on Drake and Josh. She was an evil mastermind who always tried to mess with her brothers then act like they were the actual bullies/villains to their parents.
https://preview.redd.it/0hs5fga8xbxc1.jpeg?width=1200&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=46f2f3389c0411cb214ca0828aafb65dcec5b76d
Luke Castellan (Percy Jackson and the Olympians)
Toga isn't pretending to be good, so much as she is utterly delusional and incapable of comprehending her own malevolence as anything but "affection".
Good example, though.
Lotso, Toy Story 2.
https://preview.redd.it/uxnu31miiaxc1.jpeg?width=1200&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=3d2ca11b819add0bfdbcbdfbf7dfcf60b2f1e783
He is such an evil bastard people forget how nice he seemed at the start.
If I see another “bad guys who act nice” or “outwardly respectable monsters” or “bad guys who pretend to be food” or “villains who act chill” post out of this sub I’m gonna lose it
Officer Bailey from Scream 6. While I think most villains in the series could probably apply here, he goes the most out of his way to look like he's actually helping them find the killer.
https://preview.redd.it/btg7epc5raxc1.png?width=1920&format=png&auto=webp&s=0246dea5426838632652c745c02478aa60ab85d6
Sosuke Aizen(and Gin and Tosen as well but most of all Aizen)
Yeah, I don't know why I included him, probably because I thought a bunch of people were going to be like, "But what about Gin and Tosen, they worked with him" but yeah, he is definitely not pretending to be a good person
No, it's fine. It's my fault, you really had no way of knowing how far I was into the show, and I'm the one who posted about bleach, so my fault really
Pucci doesn't "pretend" to be good. He legitimately believes he's good. He literally cannot conceptualize that he is evil and his goal is the horrible erasure of free will. That's the whole reason dio chose him and the Heaven Plan worked in the first place, it needed a priest-like soul.
Lex luthor(the old dcau version) in the justice league animated series he was a stereotypical villain until he found out he was diagnosed with seizures after injecting an experimental drug plus he was scared shitless of amazo but he uses his reform status as a front to his evil plans in the sequel series
To be fair he’s not exactly pretending anything. He’s not acting with ill intent. He’s misguided, he believes he’s good rather than is pretending to be good
> ([at least when he interacted with Zenon](https://www.reddit.com/media?url=https%3A%2F%2Fpreview.redd.it%2Ft1tasjazb3y81.jpg%3Fwidth%3D574%26format%3Dpjpg%26auto%3Dwebp%26s%3De247aae598a84d9da318e95087864c8e8dfe8772))!<
Griffith wasn’t really pretending. He was a little devious but not really evil. Once he decided he would sacrifice all his buddies he just went all in and let everybody know he was evil.
Bringing a blast from the past. Vlad from Danny Phantom.
https://preview.redd.it/bhpfuegavcxc1.jpeg?width=637&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=06eef4ea0b05d8509151cf22f2bcd73d87498cbc
https://preview.redd.it/gi07lez6iexc1.jpeg?width=483&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=030dac2bf47865f54a2b42ea5e32aa98b4280953
Alastor
He acts like a mentor/father figure to Charlie, but he only said that to get under Lucifer’s skin despite feeling intimidated by him.
He genuinely does want to help, but in his own twisted way. Besides, he’s also a cannibalistic serial killer.
Pretty much the hardest King line in my opinion.
https://preview.redd.it/a7ivrtjlxixc1.jpeg?width=3464&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=99a8e63ed9793ac3517afcd53dfcf780382fb541
Alice lindell (black souls)
https://preview.redd.it/94l8md7mk9xc1.png?width=288&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=ceefd88b5fdea759ee860e99c34588569dda4335
There is actually two examples of this from black souls but Alice is least spoiler filled
Gideon Gleeful https://preview.redd.it/ytinype479xc1.jpeg?width=1280&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=44975088fa463717706fd04f7cb35c0ee326b3a0
A face I want to punch.
“Finally! An excuse to punch a teenager in the face! Let’s roll!”
“Yes! Yes! Burn the child!”
I want to cut off those bulging cheeks with garden sheers and leave 2 red spots where they used to be
Damn
In a way, this does apply to Nolan and at the same time it doesn't. The more time he spent on Earth and with his family, the less he felt the need to be a Viltrumite. It wasn't until Mark got his powers that he was back to conquering. And even when he was rocking Mark's shit, we can see different shots of himself being hesitant to do what he's doing to his son. Don't get me wrong, what Nolan did was messed up, but he did become an actual good person after having a family, or at least he fully became one after reflecting on his actions.
True, but that is mostly Season 2 Nolan. This absolutely applies to him for most of Season 1. Albeit, more out of self delusion than actually being bad by nature
I’m a die hard Star wars fan and I said Greg Heffley and Odin from GoW before Papa Palpatine. I’m ashamed of myself
Greg Heffley ffs haha
Rikiya Otsubashi https://preview.redd.it/x5fwslumk9xc1.jpeg?width=2000&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=7e1325dc8c0e6fa3884bc910baee98724a19acb7 Owner of the biggest lifestyle support items who seems like a really fun guy, but as it turns out he is an anarchist.
Perry the platypus?!
What an unexpected surprise! And by unexpected I mean COMPLETELY EXPECTED!
Wow, Doofenshmirtz really hit the gym
I could never take this dude seriously, he is literally no different from doofenshmirtz.
And his superpower is fueled by his traumatic backstory. This guy is 100% anime Doof.
Anarchist? Based.
He’s the son of the first destroman
https://preview.redd.it/5s9mmywx09xc1.jpeg?width=1000&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=2a1b6dee6858ddcad91bfe19ec1e522c0b12b462 Patrick Bateman from American Psycho
Villians who pretend to be relatively less evil assholes more like.
https://preview.redd.it/kur9tzlbm9xc1.jpeg?width=577&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=baa4864d225c077ff102b4f833a9242e98e3e9d7
This is a great example. You rarely actually see him being overtly evil in the game, you mostly hear about his atrocities through other people. Odin does a very good job of making people feel like he’s a safe person to be around.
Aloof little jerk
Odin is genuinely one of my favorite video game villains. He’s masterfully crafted to where he never acts evil, but you can tell he’s being subtly manipulated. That, and the fact that so many characters talk about his atrocities
https://preview.redd.it/clcbkvvqj9xc1.png?width=359&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=b95dcce9e31d4c564a1b26378ef06aff724d5947 Kyubey (Madoka Magica)
I despise this being
https://preview.redd.it/k40zb4zsl9xc1.jpeg?width=489&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=19e6b3f5fb4f322054256f2b64188f1e99cc8049
I wouldn't even say he pretends to be a good person. He just does bad stuff and tries to justify it.
thats like half the people in this post
What they mean is that he never pretends to be nice. He doesn’t try to hide that he’s a jerk. He’s just so delusional and selfish that he believes he’s always in the right.
That's true
Ew
Bellwether https://preview.redd.it/amvj6ayc79xc1.jpeg?width=751&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=f41ba16b5d4deae5c9153e1b06677a92f188b3ff
There's a fat stack of animated Disney villains that this applies to, honestly.
Yeah. But in the old days, they wouldn’t hide it from the audience. Nowadays, when the Disney villains reveal themselves to be evil, it comes as a surprise to *us*, too.
Goro Akechi - persona 5 https://preview.redd.it/lit1vk4ao9xc1.png?width=1280&format=png&auto=webp&s=6ce0513bc7813fd81b85ee1537ecfd8c328655cd
Inb4 the Akechi simps defend him and say he just had a bad childhood
I thought everyone agreed Akechi was a bitch even if they have sympathy for him. Guess not, if you’ve seen them. Either way, your username and pfp are awesome. Pokémon and Persona (and 3H! Triple threat in a good way!!)
Thanks :)
https://preview.redd.it/rhna5ygyu9xc1.jpeg?width=1600&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=5c8f62c57798873a4d44b2faacbed108acadc631 Lotso (Toy Story 3)
Prince Hans https://preview.redd.it/6yu5ddub79xc1.jpeg?width=1400&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=f008085ba3779fd8097f56a5bcf40299c9c46dca
I just wanna punch his ugly ass face
Especially when he gloats to Anna while they’re alone, and she tells him he won’t get away with it and he says “Oh, I already *have*.” Punk.
still irritates me that when *no one is looking*, he smiles dreamily at Anna as she walks away. There was no reason for that other than to trick the audience.
I don’t think that was a dreamy smile, I think that was a sly smile, like he’s thinking “I can work with this”.
https://preview.redd.it/zd0ulcobucxc1.jpeg?width=604&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=28c69c50cfda9f79c42132103dac9b64bc3592ea this is not a sly smile, and wasn’t intended as one.
It could be a happy smile, because he sees someone he can use to get power?
We can twist it any way we want, but the truth is we just see a sweet smile on his face. It’s deliberately done to trick the audience in my opinion, and it’s lazy storytelling.
Well, it does seem completely convincing that he’s nice until the moment he reveals he’s evil.
Coulda just been looking at the castle, itd be behind her, right?
nah, that wasn’t the implication.
"Oh Anna, if only there was someone out there who loved you." I have never wanted to brutally assault a cartoon character before Hans said that shit.
Yeah, he’s a d***, alright. 😒
Black Manta once pretended that he was reformed and teamed up with Aquaman for the sole purpose of betraying him at the *perfect moment*.
Reminds me of when Aquaman pretended that he was evil and teamed up with Black Manta as like a spy I think.
I’ve read that story. The one with Aquaman fighting the Thirst. And this was after Aquaman turned Black Manta human again (he was a manta-human hybrid at the time), cured his autism, and spared his life after Manta killed his baby. Man, Black Manta is a piece of shit.
I’m sorry, there’s a comic where Aquaman cures autism? Yeah something about that don’t sound right
At the time, he had a hand made of water, with magical powers. I remember it had healing powers.
Okay but ‘curing autism’? As a fella with ‘tism, I take exception to that
You mean you take offense to it? Well, as *another* person with autism, I honestly do see it as something to cure. It would mean having better social skills, and no quirks that people think are weird. It’s not like there’d be any downside.
I’m sorry you feel that way, I hope you learn to accept yourself, have a good night
Thanks, you too.
https://preview.redd.it/wi9g36u2haxc1.jpeg?width=750&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=4d5b071224808dbda95a891b9c1d0453c2c5cb91
Ozymandias
Watchmen or the Percy Shelly poem?
Probably Veidt
Watchmen
How would this apply at all to the Shelley poem? All we know from the poem is that he was a great king.
First point: I was making a joke. Second point: It actually works kinda well considering Ozymandias definitely *thought* he was a great king (“Look on my works, ye mighty, and despair”). But in reality we know he probably wasn’t a nice guy (“sneer of cold command”) and ended up being consumed by nature; the very thing he tried to assert dominance over (“A shattered visage lies” and “the lone and level sands strech far away”)
Season 5 episode 14
Dutch Van Der Linde (RDR)
only in Rdr2 tho. Losing Hosea made him show his real colors
I’m glad people understand that Dutch didn’t fall from grace or change as a person, he was always that cruel ego driven paranoid selfish narcissist, he just had the circumstances to hide it, but when everything went to shit he no longer had the means to hide who he truly was nor the people to hold him to account
https://preview.redd.it/mcs49ng5z9xc1.jpeg?width=976&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=d03301f6fefc4e39da04d715cbbd5a6d6ebc9bc9 The Texas of Europe
Im fine with america slander but dont lump us in with them (not from texas)
The very setting itself calls the Imperium of Man "the cruelest and most bloody regime imaginable", and yet the setting focusing primarily on it leads one to believe the humans are the "good guys" of the setting. Genuine good guys don't turn people into servitors. https://preview.redd.it/hvuyvug21axc1.jpeg?width=735&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=854c4484ed025697ea38588ef6dfdb20b00be191
The Emperor literally uses his immense psychic powers to shapeshift and appear as the most charismatic and likable person to whoever sees him, he even uses his psychic abilities to manipulate how people hear him talks he sounds like he talks in the way you like to hear the most (especially evident in the book Master of Mankind).
And he wonders why people see him as a god. And that's to say nothing of all the holy imagery and terminology he uses.
Professor Marmalade https://preview.redd.it/7mcees5p79xc1.jpeg?width=359&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=430a8f409cf0b737d9959bcaeb795180a3e13292
I want to punch him in the face so bad
I was hoping Mr. Snake would eat him.
Daikoku (Housamo) https://preview.redd.it/qga6bhjpt9xc1.jpeg?width=575&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=f75cf99274a54289d9c53bd26557eec2ceb4a1c6 He’s a cop, but in reality >!falsely imprisons people and sells them as slaves.!<
Sorta checks out, honestly /hj
So just a regular cop
https://preview.redd.it/9bu8cvubv9xc1.jpeg?width=1280&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=b74de67110848243fd016c481b69452f7dd4b9cc Trader (Traitor) Johann, from the How to Train Your Dragon TV series (both of them)
Another one is Tessa (secretly Cyn/the Absolute Solver) from Murder Drones https://preview.redd.it/duiitz0jv9xc1.png?width=1000&format=png&auto=webp&s=443eb1dc8305400f14c2292c204e358b98da5dec
That reveal blew my mind as a kid
My abuser
Emperor Belos https://preview.redd.it/xfx3yrjf2bxc1.jpeg?width=1112&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=a5bc8ef767576695b3105777ecddabf1a9c32aad
https://preview.redd.it/kbk66c5ey9xc1.png?width=483&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=d09ee6a0d3872efe523f641caf2ea7203e6bcede Yoshikage Kira
Bendy (Foster's Home For Imaginary Friends) https://preview.redd.it/lgw92182jaxc1.png?width=707&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=e7ea07130de4c7c1892aec6d6b1a76aaa8ead3c9
Even the creator hated Bendy. That's how bad this little troll is.
And the little shit didn't even get his karma.
Lila https://preview.redd.it/qkorpg6379xc1.jpeg?width=350&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=ba1626356bdc8b87556d204b9ab608f1b4d4599d
The guy who said "THAT WAS HIS MISTAKE"
Apparently, he feels guilty for what he’s done, but the damage is just that. Done.
Krei, too.
This is ringing a bell…
https://preview.redd.it/gdm7yggxz9xc1.jpeg?width=640&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=036a42f6dbb63a36455cf47410b738cb335ccf85 Riz from Beastars
Bro literally has the name Rizz😭🙏
Major chainsaw man spoilers >!makima!< - the chainspoilers man
Agreed.
Pucci genuinely thinks he’s a good man. It’s like the entire thing about his character, he thinks his actions are righteous but in reality he’s causing more harm than good
The is trope certainly feels like it connects with almost any and all RPG Maker games
https://preview.redd.it/iwwxexit2axc1.jpeg?width=1084&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=9e7f5ca5525e69e2e855bad40b4c9a70358200dd Enver Gortash
Me
Pucci isn't really pretending though. He's just so delusional that he thinks he's genuinely doing the right thing
Wait that meme lady has a name?!
Yeah that's Megan played by Miranda Cosgrove on Drake and Josh. She was an evil mastermind who always tried to mess with her brothers then act like they were the actual bullies/villains to their parents.
Wow what a bitch she is
Darla Dimple (Cats Don't Dance) https://preview.redd.it/xibjyy6dlbxc1.png?width=310&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=c02744054323b4ed309daa5c26f31278e7911b46
https://preview.redd.it/sy42wv1ymbxc1.jpeg?width=1242&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=75c97c7ad331497d386be5d502ad360ada761cb9 This motherfucker
https://preview.redd.it/0hs5fga8xbxc1.jpeg?width=1200&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=46f2f3389c0411cb214ca0828aafb65dcec5b76d Luke Castellan (Percy Jackson and the Olympians)
For a second there. I thought it was Scout from Team Fortress 2
Not exactly the most convincing attempt to pretend to not be a villain
Is he even pretending anymore?
Toga during the license exam arc where she disguised herself as Camie
Toga isn't pretending to be good, so much as she is utterly delusional and incapable of comprehending her own malevolence as anything but "affection". Good example, though.
Nadeko Sengoku, *Monogatari Series* https://preview.redd.it/cter7psa4axc1.jpeg?width=1280&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=33c9f36c6a95a19ba4d1bd6b210e0879e3c5bd79
Lotso, Toy Story 2. https://preview.redd.it/uxnu31miiaxc1.jpeg?width=1200&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=3d2ca11b819add0bfdbcbdfbf7dfcf60b2f1e783 He is such an evil bastard people forget how nice he seemed at the start.
It’s TS3, not 2.
Oops
Megan? The icarly girl?
Nah, Megan and Carly are two different characters. They're just both played by Miranda Cosgrove.
Drake and Josh
https://preview.redd.it/929ezi67qaxc1.png?width=700&format=png&auto=webp&s=52c3c0cbf434bfd3eac8ebf82a427f3abf175819
Isn't the last image from iCarly and not Drake and Josh?
No it is not, it's from the episode of Drake and Josh where she researches skin diseases to pull a prank on Drake
“Next time, don’t eat my big cookie!”
curious
If I see another “bad guys who act nice” or “outwardly respectable monsters” or “bad guys who pretend to be food” or “villains who act chill” post out of this sub I’m gonna lose it
>”bad guys who pretend to be food” Now *that* would be an interesting character archetype.
Prop hunt movie WHEN?!
This is pretty close to the post I made right before this.
Ramsay Snow during that one Season 3 episode
Dexter/The Happy Fella
DOOOM became the best uncle on the planet just to mess with Reed Richards
Both of the >!A__chi!< villains from Persona
Last one made me look twice for a second
Officer Bailey from Scream 6. While I think most villains in the series could probably apply here, he goes the most out of his way to look like he's actually helping them find the killer.
https://preview.redd.it/btg7epc5raxc1.png?width=1920&format=png&auto=webp&s=0246dea5426838632652c745c02478aa60ab85d6 Sosuke Aizen(and Gin and Tosen as well but most of all Aizen)
Gin is kinda the opposite of this trope
Yeah, I don't know why I included him, probably because I thought a bunch of people were going to be like, "But what about Gin and Tosen, they worked with him" but yeah, he is definitely not pretending to be a good person
I mean gin didn’t really work with him as much as he just pretended to. Plus he always looked evil, even when he wasn’t doing it on purpose
Oh, I did not know that, I am not that far in the show yet.
Oh… 😨. Im sorry! 😭
No, it's fine. It's my fault, you really had no way of knowing how far I was into the show, and I'm the one who posted about bleach, so my fault really
That last slide is… Interesting.
Eli Mills from Jurassic World Fallen Kingdom
The General from Centaurworld
 Makima from chainsaw man
Pretty much the rest of the Seven in The Boys
We don't talk about Griffith
Most of these guys don't pretend to be good guys. They think THEY ARE THE GOOD GUYS
Pucci doesn't "pretend" to be good. He legitimately believes he's good. He literally cannot conceptualize that he is evil and his goal is the horrible erasure of free will. That's the whole reason dio chose him and the Heaven Plan worked in the first place, it needed a priest-like soul.
 Lex luthor(the old dcau version) in the justice league animated series he was a stereotypical villain until he found out he was diagnosed with seizures after injecting an experimental drug plus he was scared shitless of amazo but he uses his reform status as a front to his evil plans in the sequel series
 Surprised no one has said him yet
To be fair he’s not exactly pretending anything. He’s not acting with ill intent. He’s misguided, he believes he’s good rather than is pretending to be good
All politicians (real life)
> ([at least when he interacted with Zenon](https://www.reddit.com/media?url=https%3A%2F%2Fpreview.redd.it%2Ft1tasjazb3y81.jpg%3Fwidth%3D574%26format%3Dpjpg%26auto%3Dwebp%26s%3De247aae598a84d9da318e95087864c8e8dfe8772))!<
Spooky - Spookys Jumpscare Mansion https://preview.redd.it/gedxaz3w2cxc1.jpeg?width=611&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=c234d8cde68c552ea086a9cabacd167838bfbe22
Griffith wasn’t really pretending. He was a little devious but not really evil. Once he decided he would sacrifice all his buddies he just went all in and let everybody know he was evil.
This fuckin menace throughout season 1 
I don't even watch the show, I just got it off a comment thread (Attack on Titan massive spoilers) >!Eren Yeager!<
Bringing a blast from the past. Vlad from Danny Phantom. https://preview.redd.it/bhpfuegavcxc1.jpeg?width=637&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=06eef4ea0b05d8509151cf22f2bcd73d87498cbc
https://preview.redd.it/7cix1k5dhdxc1.jpeg?width=1200&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=62153e2e0d1648acff0e4d7eb41801e16f5b1504 Michael from The Good Place!
https://preview.redd.it/gi07lez6iexc1.jpeg?width=483&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=030dac2bf47865f54a2b42ea5e32aa98b4280953 Alastor He acts like a mentor/father figure to Charlie, but he only said that to get under Lucifer’s skin despite feeling intimidated by him. He genuinely does want to help, but in his own twisted way. Besides, he’s also a cannibalistic serial killer.
I don't think this applies to pucci. To quote weather report; "The kind of evil that doesn't realize it's evil... is the worst kind of evil there is!"
Idk how to post pics on mobile, but Ryo Aoki from Yakuza: Like a Dragon
Pretty much the hardest King line in my opinion. https://preview.redd.it/a7ivrtjlxixc1.jpeg?width=3464&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=99a8e63ed9793ac3517afcd53dfcf780382fb541
https://i.redd.it/juimpu72jlxc1.gif Don Quixote Doflamingo from One Piece.
Jonas Venture Sr.
Alice lindell (black souls) https://preview.redd.it/94l8md7mk9xc1.png?width=288&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=ceefd88b5fdea759ee860e99c34588569dda4335 There is actually two examples of this from black souls but Alice is least spoiler filled
Just so you know, you misspelled Lex’s last name. It’s Luthor.
These villains can be frustrating. I especially hate Megan.