@inproceedings{yi-etal-2026-good, title = "Too Good to be Bad: On the Failure of {LLM}s to Role-Play Villains", author = "Yi, Zihao and Jiang, Qingxuan and Ma, Ruotian and Chen, Xingyu and Yang, Qu and Wang, Mengru and Ye, Fanghua and Shen, Ying and Tu, Zhaopeng and Li, Xiaolong and Bo, Liefeng", editor = "Liakata, Maria and Moreira, Viviane P. and Zhang, Jiajun and Jurgens, David", booktitle = "Findings of the {A}ssociation for {C}omputational {L}inguistics: {ACL} 2026", month = jul, year = "2026", address = "San Diego, California, United States", publisher = "Association for Computational Linguistics", url = "https://preview.aclanthology.org/ingest-acl/2026.findings-acl.282/", pages = "5724--5734", ISBN = "979-8-89176-395-1" }