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— The Caller, This is when a villain doesn't look like a villain, and is even more terrifying because of it. This does not apply to particularly handsome or charming villains - that goes under.

Characters following this trope look completely ordinary. You could pass them on the street and, let alone suspect they murdered someone just the other day. In fantasy and science fiction shows, this is often what makes villains so terrifying. While the normal beasties the protagonists hunt down and slay are obviously fantastic monsters that don't exist in our world, these monsters could be living right next door. Please note: The identity of many of these villains may be part of a, so please use spoilers wisely. An is usually one of these.

Contrast and, as well as (when someone is good or well-adjusted despite having a thug face). Compare, where they genuinely are like everyone else until triggered. Related with but not to be confused for, where previously inhuman beasties learn to pass for human. Is when their 'normalness' is taken so far that people can't even remember what they're like. May intersect with, who looks and acts utterly normal in every respect.

The is a lazy Halloween costume: going in ordinary clothes to a costume party, then claiming, 'I'm a serial killer. •: While the is, the most evil and dangerous characters are often the most ordinary-looking: Hartmann and Franz Bonaparta come to mind. • In the 'Greenback Jane' arc of, Jane and the protagonists are pursued by a band of bounty hunters. One of them eschews the series' style and speaks in terms and at face value is a wholesome, Mr.

Rogers-ish guy. It turns out, he's a who previously torched his wife so that he could smell her flesh burn. Imagine an evil and you get the picture. • villain Yoshikage Kira actively cultivates this image, making himself as nondescript as possible to disguise his activities. This was used with chilling effect when heroes chased Kira, only to run off into a busy street and realize, that any office worker in the crowd could be him and they won't be able to find him. • Gray Fly, minor antagonist from part 3 looks like a plain old man and deliberately acts like he has no idea what is happening, while his stand rips people apart. • In, Krillin is surprised to find that Androids 17 and 18 (immensely powerful cyborgs that caused a in an alternate timeline) look just look like regular people you'd see walking down the street. Snark Busters High Society Скачать Бесплатно.

This is justified as they were once human, although even then they both happened to be juvenile delinquents. • The Titan Shifters in. The revelation that they exist becomes a source of extreme paranoia for the military, since there is absolutely no way to detect them. • This is because most Shifters come from outside the walls, whether intentionally (such as in the case of Annie, Reiner and Bertolt) or they just ended up there (like Ymir).

Titans, mindless note Humans who have been forcefully turned into Titans and cannot turn back and Shifters note Humans who have forcefully been turned into Titans and can turn back at will alike, are actually humans — or, more specifically, Eldians. And they're hated by the rest of the world for being 'devils'. • Thessaly the witch in. She appears to be a mild-mannered glasses-wearing citizen - like Clark Kent in a way. Except for the part where Superman doesn't obsessively hunt down and kill anyone who attempts to hurt him. • This is one of the nightmare-fueling qualities of the Collectors story as well.

On one end of the spectrum, you have who look like sweaty, loserish sexual predators you'd steer clear of at any costs. On the other, you have those who are ordinary-looking in the extreme. And just as vicious. • Mr Fun from the mini-series. • Kevin from is just a guy in a sweater and glasses. You wouldn't believe that he is a martial arts master, to say nothing of his knack for eating people. For extra uncanny points, it's a Charlie Brown sweater.

Ratcheted up by casting Elijah Wood in the film. • Most villains, even if they start out as relatively normal criminals, wind up disfigured and/or embracing some kind of super-villain gimmick. But not James Gordon Jr., an ordinary, bookish-looking lad who happens to also be a sociopath and serial killer. • Kevin Thorn from looks like a completely ordinary guy, but is in fact the personification of storytelling, whose goal in 'The Great Fables Crossover' was to erase the Fables universe from existence and start from scratch. •: The scene at the end of the first movie where Wednesday and Pugsley are showing off their Halloween costumes to their family.

When asked by Margaret why she's not wearing a costume like her brother, Wednesday announces that she IS in costume as a 'homicidal maniac' because 'they look just like everybody else.' • Norman Bates in. In the book, he's written as middle-aged, homely at best, and a bit creepy (much like his inspiration, Ed Gein), but Hitchcock thought it would be more interesting to make him look wholesome. • Jigsaw in the movies. Extra points because he's dying of brain cancer. • John Doe in. Combine a very subdued performance by Kevin Spacey with a name like 'John Doe' (the default name assigned to unidentified male corpses) and you've got a killer who is both chilling and credible.

• has also played a couple of very troubling antagonists in and as well. Seismosignal Keygens more. While this borders on here, his character in was scary because he could have been any random photomat clerk, and he nearly faded into the background anyway. • Patrick Bateman from. Bateman is apparently such a cookie-cutter yuppie that people keep mistaking him for other yuppies. • Garland Greene in, played by Steve Buscemi. The other cons comment on how he doesn't look like an infamous mass-murderer.

• Virtually all of the people ' character has about in are seemingly ordinary people who have done or are looking to do bad things. The biggest case being a janitor who is a (who also doubles as a rapist).

•, which is about five average people trapped in an elevator, one of whom is Satan. • The Beast from turns out to be a dumpy old guy in his underwear. Much of the appeal in general of Kung Fu Hustle is how the martial arts masters turn out to be the most regular, unflattering-looking people in the movie, while the suave, Hollywood-ish Axe Gang are a pathetic joke. •: Harry Powell is either this or a, depending on how sensitive your is. To all appearances, a charming and folksy preacher and the best stepfather a could ever want. • A TV-remake of had Harry played by Gerald McRaney, who is possibly best known for appearing in the spinoff Promised Land.

He played a dad. A dad possibly a lot like yours. Put some role association together, and you have prime. • In the comedy film, the main character (Bill Murray) thinks he's in a simulation game and, when informed about, thinks that she is this elderly woman dressed as a dominatrix ('It was our anniversary!' Is a real person, a /. She is a middle aged woman of average appearance, maybe even pretty, and she acts completely calm and normal. The film sends the message that unlike in the world of, villains in the real world aren't always with a convenient.

After a very emotional buildup, a parent of one of a serial killer's victims says, 'But you look just like a normal person.' • Lampshaded in when Nicolas Cage's character tracks down and unmasks the performer 'The Machine' to reveal some ordinary bald guy with glasses. Machine/ George Higgins: 'What did you expect? • 's school principal in.

• In, the slasher killer of the title is, while out of his costume, a normal-looking guy. Because he ISNT Leslie Vernon, he really is just some random guy •, where the antagonist's true intentions are made incredibly clear to the audience and the protagonist, but the latter has to spend the whole movie trying to prove it. Sure, he's a hitman and serial killer, but other than that there's absolutely nothing weird about him.

•: • This was supposed to happen in. Was James Cameron's first choice to play the Terminator and had already appeared in-character at a fundraising event. Arnie originally auditioned for the role of Kyle Reese before switching roles to make the Terminator look much more imposing and threatening; Henriksen ended up playing one of the cops instead. • In, the default appearance of the shape-shifting villain is a fairly nondescript man (Robert Patrick), as opposed to the lantern-jawed Schwarzenegger. This really brings out the tension in the first part of the movie, before the audience knows that Arnold is the good guy this time around. Or would have, if hadn't capitalized on the awesome T-1000 effects and the line 'How do you terminate a Terminator?'

Thus spoiling the surprise. • Dominic Greene in.

According to director Marc Forster, Greene was deliberately styled without make-up, in order to symbolise the 'hidden evils in society'. • A nice one in the Bruce Willis movie. The operatives bump into a thoroughly ordinary middle-aged woman at the airport, with the most paranoid among them insisting she's a killer, while the others assume he's just crazy. Then after she's released, she turns up again - with a rocket launcher.

• From in the final minutes of the original film, Laurie manages to rip off Michael's mask. For a few seconds his face is clearly visible and he appears to be just a completely ordinary man. • When the cops in mistakenly think that Ted is a serial murderer, they remark that they never look like how you expect them upon seeing Ted. • In, the alien replacements all look like regular humans.

Until they attack. • Implied to have been the case with Freddy Krueger in, who - in life - was the janitor at the local elementary school and wore a crumpled brown fedora and a tacky Christmassy sweater, and was secretly murdering (and possibly molesting) kids for years. Of course, by the time we meet him, he's an undead monster with burns all over his body, so his appearance is a bit more striking. • In the end of, a young girl describes a man who is more than likely the killer, and says that he looked 'ordinary' and had a 'normal' face.

This suggests even further that the handsome Hyeon-gyu Park, the main suspect of the case, really was innocent. •: When Terri learns that Hochman was the killer who recently died, it's noted that he just looked like a normal guy. • While the Cenobites of are terrifying, mutilated demons, most of the human villains fit this trope to a t, which is fitting considering the series commentary on sadistic cruelty hiding everywhere. Most notable is Frank Cotton from the first two films, who looked like a handsome, regular man before he was turned into a skinless monstrosity, but in reality was a sadistic. • Much like, does this with, having him played. It doesn't work as well in the movie, especially given that the show made him at least somewhat imposing and built anticipation by hiding his face in the shadows for the first two seasons. In the movie, Ozai lacks these qualities.

As put it: 'It's like they grabbed a guy at the grocery store and dressed him up as!' • In, Kylo Ren responds to Rey calling him a 'creature in a mask' by removing his helmet. Unlike Vader, he's entirely normal-looking without it, and Rey is visibly thrown that her captor could blend into a crowd so easily. • In the film adaptation of, Annie Wilkes was changed from intimidating and unkempt to somebody you could pass on the street and not look twice. The effect is deeply unsettling. • In, Zemo is completely unremarkable-looking (at least ). This is a drastic change from his comic book counterpart, a heavily-scarred, former Nazi.

• The unnamed killer from looks like a fairly normal 30-year-old man when he takes off his mask, though he does have a tattoo on his neck. • Peter and Paul in look like a pair of clean-cut young men who want to borrow some eggs. Until they unleash their more sadistic side to a hapless suburban family. • The title character in series of movies looks and acts like an ordinary-bordering-on-ideal father figure, if you ignore the fact that his go-to solution for discovering that his latest family doesn't live up to his standards is to murder all of them and move on to the next one.

• The series of movies features the Elite Hunting group, made up of wealthy sadists who pay top-dollar for the privilege of torturing kidnapped tourists. And who otherwise are perfectly normal people with regular lives and loved ones. • In, after killing a would-be rapist, Ward mentions that the man didn't look much older than him, maybe even younger, a mere boy. He reminds himself that the man would have killed him, too, if he had given him the chance. • has an ordinary-looking, grandfatherly old man, who wants to teach his grandson his trade. Which happens to be torturing.

The contrast between his genuine disappointment that the boy doesn't want to follow in his footsteps, and the fact that he is torturing a woman makes the scene all the more horrible. •: • The Tickler is a brutally efficient, but Arya notes that he's a completely unexceptional and ordinary-looking man while not plying his trade. • Later in the series we meet Qyburn, who combines this with to give him a 'grandfatherly' appearance, masking his true colours as an and extraordinaire. • Roose Bolton is one of the most evil characters in the series (even if he ) and is described as a man of average height and build with a plain face and no particularly distinguishing features except for his pale complexion and. • goes to a lot of trouble to seem like just an average guy. • In: • Moist Von Lipwig's period as a con man was greatly aided by an utterly generic appearance, which he supplemented with a more memorable costume or disguise so his marks had something misleading to remember him. • Stratford in is an unremarkable youngish fellow who looks like nobody in particular — until he has you at the wrong end of a weapon, when he looks distinctly, awfully like.

• by the Ankh-Morpork City Watch in a non-villainous example. When it's an open secret that they have a werewolf on the force, having a like Corporal Nobby Nobbs around to divert attention from the attractive but (usually) very human-looking trips up any number of crooks. • In the series, Locke Lamora is occasionally described as skinnier than average, but otherwise he has a particularly unexceptional appearance that helps him blend into his disguises. Impossible from is a short guy just this side of middle aged. When he walks down the street in his civvies, he's completely unremarkable. With his costume on, he looks more like the he is.

• The Yeerks from the are aliens that control sentient beings by tunneling into their heads through their ear canals and spreading themselves around the brain, sinking into the cracks, etc. So the protagonists are aware that anyone they know could be a 'Controller.' Like Jake's brother Tom, their Vice Principal Chapman, and many more throughout the series. • To really drive the paranoia home, it's not at all uncommon for the Animorphs to cause a public spectacle.

And start getting attacked by random members of the crowd. • In the novel Shatterglass, the serial killer turns out to be one of the Hindu Untouchable/Dalit characters who have been constantly on the outskirts of the protagonists' radar, cleaning, being abused, and biding their time.

• In, the Bank of England has been robbed by a man who protagonist Phileas Fogg. The British consul in Suez remarks that the description given is that of an honest man, to which the detective Fix declares that great robbers always look like honest men; the ones who look like rascals are too easily caught. • In, the has what Skif's mentor calls 'a face-shaped face.' • In the novel Terrier, Beka and her mentors search for the Shadow Snake, a kidnapper and child murderer named after the local. They are shocked to learn the Shadow Snake's true identity: the grandmotherly proprietor of the local pastry shop. • In the city of New Crobuzon's militia forces are basically this trope.

The majority of the militia is made up of agents that walk around the city like any normal person. This is used as a in great effect when a strike breaks out and eventually leads to fighting between two crowds. The militia have people in both. Even the crowd that's on strike. They could be anywhere at anytime and you would only know when it's already too late. • The Silencers in by Rick Yancey.

Used to chilling effect early in the novel when Cassie finds an injured soldier dying in an abandoned convenience store, but doesn't know if he's a Silencer or not and so shoots him out of fear. It turns out he was perfectly human. • by the Grey Men in, assassins who are cloaked in a that makes them look ordinary and forgettable. So ordinary and forgettable that you almost forget seeing them at all when they were the only person you passed in an otherwise empty hallway just before coming across a dead body. • loves this trope.

The murderer is always someone who looks completely normal, and whom the reader would never have suspected. • spends a lot of time dealing with the day-to-day working life of Francis Dolarhyde, its eponymous, the sheer mundane nature of which make his horrific murder sprees all the more unsettling.

In a twist, the killer thinks of himself as hideous and disfigured, because of a cleft lip he had as a child. Except that it's barely noticeable after all the surgery he got for it. • The infected humans in are eventually taken over by their needle-symbiotes, but otherwise appear completely human unless freshly-injured and still healing. • Many of 's stories feature antagonists who look like perfectly ordinary people, most notably: • The novella Apt Pupil in describes Todd Bowden as an all-American kid with reasonable grades, a paper route, and overall nothing to indicate his obsession with concentration camps and Nazi war crimes.

• The True Knot in look specifically like harmless old men and women clad in lots of polyester and travelling around in their RV. They also torture children with psychic powers and feed on the 'steam' they produce in order to sustain their own immortality. • In the series, Reed and Malloy were helping a female officer conduct a rape-resistance class at a local college. When one of the attendees asked what would a rapist look like, the lady cop pointed to the pair of heroes and said, 'Just like them. Oliver Thredson, a compassionate and upstanding psychiatrist who is actually the infamous serial killer, Bloody Face. • In, Elizabeth, Phillip and their handler, Claudia are KGB operatives, but speak with flawless American accents. • In the episode 'Intersections In Real Time', Sheridan has been captured and is being tortured in a prison cell somewhere.

The is a mild-looking bureaucrat who administers and likes it's just another day on the job. Is that this was all intentional, as he wanted to remind his fans that not all evil men act evil. • contrasts the over the top antics of the Salamanca clan with the ordinary looking members of Gus' criminal organization. The Salamancas rely on intimidation and crazy violence for their reputation.

Gus prefers to blend in and appear to be extremely boring and affable. He also goes to great lengths to make sure that his underlings do not attract any unnecessary attention. Walt strides the line between these two extremes as he knows that he has to be as nondescript as possible but his pride and ego constantly prompt him to do things that will get him noticed. Further, Todd is a heartless, casual sociopath who looks like one of the show's more boring or typical characters.

While he looks like an ordinary man, after killing an innocent little boy his reaction is, 'Shit happens.' • Not often used on, but this quote deserves mention. Willow: (in reference to a murderer) It could be anyone. It could be me!it's not, though. • Played straight in Season 5 with, a with,, and. Who looks like an average pretty girl you'd see on the street.

In fact, the first time the Scoobies meet her, she's casually. Since only Buffy (who wasn't there) knew what she looked like, the gang thinks nothing of her until they realize she bought items for a dangerous and would require tremendous power to be able to perform that particular spell; cue. • Two of 's m.