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It differs, but I have everything to be a high-standing person in general. I have the wealth, the manners, and the type of personality to get threw with it. You all might be slobs, but I, I, am not by a long shot.
~ Ella Visagie on her sophisticated manner.
Kingpin: [in disguised voice] Welcome, everyone. I wish I could be with you on this very special day, but my clutch assembly broke. You know how it is.
Finn: Descramble that voice.
Holley: I'm trying. Oh, it's too sophisticated!
~ Holley Shiftwell trying to descramble the Lemon Kingpin's voice to uncover the secret of who he is, but failing due to it being too sophisticated.

Sophisticated villains are characters who are exceptionally cultivated, mannerly, and refined in behavior, often as a result of coming from or interacting with a higher social status. As a common, they are clever, intuitive, manipulative, and tend to be knowledgeable in regards to deep, obscure, and/or uncommon topics of contemplation. They usually act in a generally polite albeit condescending and opprobrious manner ranging from genuine respect to manipulating others with false kindness. It is also common for them to look down on others they consider "lower" or less cultured than them.

Although they are descriptively the exact opposites of Barbarians, it is not at all uncommon for them to shed any upper-class natures and become the savage monsters they are if at all (e.g. Eddie Gluskin, Ridley, Kingpin, Red Skull, Dr. Robotnik, Professor Ratigan, Kokushibo, Hannibal Lecter, Haytham Kenway, Oswald Cobblepot, Esdeath, Mrs. Tweedy, Green Goblin, many versions of the Joker, Shredder, Nicole Wallace, Thanos, Ajax, Clayton, Morlun, Junko Enoshima, James Hook (2003), Darkseid, Dick Hardly, Major and Sir John Talbot).

This may also encompass complex villains with moral standings and views others are unable to describe (i.e. Rick Sanchez, Anton Chigurh and Shadow the Hedgehog).

They are the villainous counterparts of sophisticated heroes.

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