A sociopath is a sociopath, even one that is willing to keep his horror strictly to "office hours" and is the most kind and friendly man ever outside of them (and he's not faking that, either).As a small variation on the above, historians don't really care that Alice needed to pay her bills they'll still rightly label her as an irredeemable monster for her deeds when on duty, banality of evil be damned.Alternatively, her acquaintances and friends don't agree with Alice doing evil deeds as a job, and everyone she knows or loves abandons her. Alice thinks that she can separate her life of evil from her regular life, but her victims and their avengers certainly don't think that way, and Alice is eventually killed for her evil works.Enforced: Despite her evil deeds, Alice has proven pretty popular with the audience so Moral Guardians have pressured the writers to Retcon her villainous nature so that she is a pretty nice girl off the clock.Alice is neither evil, nor does she work for Evulz Unlimited.Alice is evil during and after her job.Alice does some dodgy things on the job, but she works for both sides.Alice is evil when not on the job somedays, other days she's nice.Alice refuses to rob a bank because shes on break.Parodied: Alice is the nicest girl ever until she literally punches the clock.She wants people to stay away from her because of her day job. Subverted: Alice's actually more evil when she's off the clock.On the clock Pragmatic Villainy Off the clock kicks puppies For the Evulz.Alice works for a Villain with Good Publicity and buys into it.
Alice has kids to feed (or an expensive hobby), and Evil Pays Better.