This isn't because he's a nice guy it's because he is so powerful that there's nothing they could do to stop him and because (as he tells them) he sees them as useful pawns for carrying out his evil plan. In their first meeting with Father, the Big Bad of Fullmetal Alchemist, he is friendly to Ed and his friends and heals their injuries.
While in an encounter with lowliest Monster humans are lucky if they don't have their heads bitten off. He is only one notch below Dark Lords themselves in raw power, and the worst the humans get when he messes with them just for fun? A little frustration and indirect property damage. As his kind goes, Xellos is benevolent in his own way - volunteers information when it's not against his orders (or his lulz) and even saved humans when didn't need to.
And almost became good friends with the bigger one.In Slayers Next, Lina sits down and eats with the Big Bad as he makes an offer to her.This becomes slightly more appropriate, and funny, considering he really is an Eldritch Abomination personifying the 'madness of the rule of law' yet currently hangs out in his very pleasant-looking (or weird, it's like the sky.indoors, with windows) office holding the odd tea party with his Living Weapon for company.Since, he has switched to a comical one with a stylized skull mask and giant cartoon hands to avoid scaring the children at the school he started. He was never a villain, but he used to have a frightening voice and appearance. Shinigami, the God of Death from Soul Eater.While she was created for the express purpose of bypassing the Mind Screw parts of this trope, Nagato Yuki's teatime with Kyon in The Melancholy of Suzumiya Haruhi still qualifies.They have a rather relaxed discussion on child-rearing techniques together as Shana and Yuji goggle at what's going on. She has no idea who he is besides Shana's "legal guardian" and a deep voice on the other line. In Shakugan no Shana, Shana's god-like master Alastor the Flame of Heaven contacts Yuji's mother via phone.you have such lovely eyes, could I keep them? Even if it doesn't follow any known laws of reality, it's not a certainty that it's evil. There's every chance that the creature is misunderstood and actually friendly. However, an Eldritch Abomination is not necessarily evil. a twisted subversion of God Was My Co-Pilot? If you didn't know it was a Cosmic Horror until after you had tea, it's. A distant relative of Go-Karting with Bowser. If things go beyond this, you may be in Did You Just Romance Cthulhu? territory. Often used to show the Villain is Affably Evil or an Anti-Villain. Bond, I Expect You to Dine and Did Mom Just Have Tea with Cthulhu?, but here the other party seems genuinely friendly. Compared to Enemies with Death, where the menacing cosmic figure is hostile, this is a welcome (if weird) reprieve. Similar to Pals with Jesus, but here we have the added weirdness that the creature seems scary. And what does a mind warped beyond human understanding consider tasteful dinner conversation? These problems are, of course, magnified by the fact that among Eldritch Abominations it is almost universally considered an appropriate response to breaches of etiquette to reach across the table (hypocritical as that may seem) and eat one's dining companion.īut to make things easier: they usually prefer two cubes of sugar, and a drop of virgin blood for creamer. While traditionally one uses the fork on the far left for salad, it's frequently unclear to the mortal in this situation how this rule is modified by Alien Geometries. This can lead to some troubling questions of etiquette. For whatever reason, be it sinister and self serving or just misunderstood, the big horrible scary thingy treats you in a friendly manner. And it has just invited you to have a nice cup of tea and a bun. It is so much more powerful than you that it could kill you without thinking, or maybe just by thinking.
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