Category:Sophisticated villains

Villains who are very cultivated and refined, often coming from high social status. They usually act in a very polite and collected (albeit condescending and opprobrious) manner, either from genuine respect or to manipulate others.

They are the exact opposite of a Barbarian although it is common in the climax for them to shed their gentlemanly nature and become the savage monsters they really are (if they are).