Board 8 > Best of the Trope Season 2: Day 15 - Evil Brit

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Hello everyone, and welcome back to Best of the Trope!

Here are the rules. Each day, I will post a trope from TV Tropes, and each poster can name up to three examples of that trope. Whichever nomination gets the most mentions wins! Posters may also name as many Honourable Mentions as they like, but they are purely optional and will not count towards the running score. You may look at the TV Tropes page for that day's trope for examples, but you do not have to pick all your examples from the page. You can nominate whatever examples you like, as long as they qualify for the trope. Each trope will last around 24 hours before the next one goes up.

Posters may also nominate any tropes they wish to see come up during the series. This is optional, and you don't have to do it every day, or at all. Just bear in mind that I may close trope nominations temporarily if the list gets too long. Tropes will be randomly selected from the list each day, except for some occasions where I will pick a thematically appropriate trope that may or may not be on the list.

Here's the list of previous tropes, so if you wish to nominate some tropes, check on here that it wasn't previously done in Season 1. http://board8.wikia.com/wiki/Best_of_the_Trope

Here is the current list of tropes.

Jack-of-All-Stats
Karmic Death
Laughably Evil

Without further ado, let's get started!

Yesterday's trope, Walking Spoiler, was a tie between Frank Fontaine (Bioshock) and Delta (Zero Time Dilemma), who got 2 votes each.

Previous Winners:
Un-Canceled - Futurama
Continuity Reboot - Batman Begins / Tomb Raider (2013)
Opposing Sports Team - Monstars (Space Jam) / Globo Gym Purple Cobras (Dodgeball: A True Underdog Story) / Luca Goers (Final Fantasy X)
Calling Your Attacks - Falcon Punch (Super Smash Bros.)
Arc Words - You have failed this city! (Arrow) / Bad Wolf (Doctor Who)
The Gunslinger - Roland Deschain (The Dark Tower)
Interface Screw - Touch Fuzzy, Get Dizzy (Yoshi's Island)
Cold Sniper - Widowmaker (Overwatch)
Signature Move - Falcon Punch (Super Smash Bros.)
Badass Santa - Santa Christ (Nostalgia Critic)
How the Character Stole Christmas - How the King Stole Christmas (Brawl in the Family)
An Ass-Kicking Christmas - Die Hard
Ineffectual Sympathetic Villain - Wile E. Coyote (Looney Tunes)

Today's trope is Evil Brit. Here is the link: https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/EvilBrit

Any character with a British accent, particularly in upper class Received Pronunciation (far and away the most common type you'll hear in American media) is likely to turn out to be a villain. The English tend to view this trope in one of three ways, depending on the particular depiction. Either: with a sense of pride (Evil Is Sexy / Evil Is Cool / Evil Is Posh after all!), mild eye-rolling amusement (tsk, Americans) OR annoyance at the apparent national stereotyping.

This includes all evil characters with British accents (where the rest of the cast has accents), whether or not they are actually stated to be British. Quite a few of these are not actual Brits, but have anomalous quasi-British (usually vaguely upper-class and English, as noted above) accents in settings where almost everyone else has some sort of American accent and no one is necessarily supposed to be from either country, just to mark that character as villainous. As you might expect, this version appears to be associated with films and shows in which the use of English is (at least weakly implied to be) a Translation Convention for whatever the characters are "really" saying, although it's not exclusive to them. See The Queen's Latin and Aliens of London.

Villains of this type come in two flavours. The first is usually wealthy and snobbish, and probably quite well educated. The second is the hooligan with the Cockney (or similar) accent.

TL,DR: The villain has a British accent when the other characters don't, because it makes them sound more evil.

Nominations:
Hans Gruber (Die Hard) - He has a British accent despite supposedly being German.
Scar (The Lion King) - He has a British accent despite his brother and nephew both having American accents.
Goku Black (Dragonball Super) - He switches from the Christian Bale Bat-voice to a British accent when he transforms into his Rose form.

Manchester Black (DC Comics)
Kilgrave (Jessica Jones)
Liquid Snake (Metal Gear)
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Everyone has one vote each so far.

Captain Hook
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Gordon Ramsay
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V.M. Varga (Fargo)
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V.M. Varga (Fargo)
Mad Mod (Teen Titans)
Ajax (Deadpool)
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I'll drop Manchester for Varga
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