Tropescilloscope: Affably Evil

A villain who's genuinely polite and friendly. (read more at tvtropes.org)

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More Tropes Artistic License – History Unreliable Narrator Evil vs. Evil Expy Captain Obvious From Bad to Worse Animated Credits Opening Composite Character Kick the Son of a Bitch She Cleans Up Nicely Not Even Bothering with the Accent Black and Gray Morality Nothing Is Scarier Toilet Humour aka: Toilet Humor Karmic Death Parental Abandonment Bloodier and Gorier Leave the Camera Running Adaptational Heroism Fatal Family Photo Foil No Antagonist Off with His Head! Light Is Not Good Historical In-Joke Destination Defenestration Determinator Stylistic Suck The Quiet One Shoot the Shaggy Dog Wounded Gazelle Gambit Real Life Writes the Plot Daddy's Girl Insistent Terminology Everyone Calls Him "Barkeep" Evil Laugh Beware the Nice Ones Accidental Misnaming Decoy Protagonist Artistic License – Military Flipping the Bird Tap on the Head Villain with Good Publicity Improbable Infant Survival aka: Infant Immortality Instant Death Bullet Took a Level in Badass You Have Got to Be Kidding Me! Canon Foreigner Made of Explodium Title Drop Screw This, I'm Outta Here! Knife Nut Visual Pun Everyone Has Standards Serious Business Big "NO!" Bilingual Bonus Would Hurt a Child Abusive Parents Nice Guy Translation Convention Foreshadowing Improbable Weapon User Lighter and Softer Easily Forgiven The Remake Straight Gay Extreme Doormat Let's Get Dangerous! The Starscream Serial Killer Sir Not-Appearing-in-This-Trailer Sinister Minister Girl-on-Girl Is Hot Anyone Can Die Slap-Slap-Kiss Loophole Abuse Bloodless Carnage Darkest Hour Bad "Bad Acting" Mexican Standoff Rule of Cool Mad Scientist Insane Troll Logic Daylight Horror Be Careful What You Wish For Pun aka: Incredibly Lame Pun Imperial Stormtrooper Marksmanship Academy Product Placement Mood Whiplash Foregone Conclusion Sir Swears-a-Lot Leaning on the Fourth Wall Depraved Bisexual Silence Is Golden Does This Remind You of Anything? Token Minority Jerkass Video Credits Kick the Dog Those Two Bad Guys Jerkass Has a Point Curb-Stomp Battle Shipper on Deck Eldritch Abomination Rule of Symbolism Rated M for Manly Scare Chord Race Against the Clock The End... Or Is It? Broken Bird Irony Outrun the Fireball Face–Heel Turn Accidental Murder Shower Scene Woman in White Based on a True Story Dumb Blonde Alas, Poor Villain Retcon Tagline Evil Is Hammy Maybe Ever After Star-Crossed Lovers What the Hell, Hero? Ass Shove Stuff Blowing Up Stealth Hi/Bye Novelization Defiant to the End Neck Snap Defrosting Ice Queen Chekhov's Gunman Not Quite Dead Deconstruction Nice Job Fixing It, Villain! "The Reason You Suck" Speech Red Shirt Shirtless Scene Dark Is Not Evil No-Holds-Barred Beatdown Boom, Headshot! Arch-Enemy Vacation Films No Name Given Chekhov's Gun Nice Job Breaking It, Hero! An Aesop You Have Outlived Your Usefulness Chiaroscuro No Celebrities Were Harmed The Chick The '60s Hypocrite Impaled with Extreme Prejudice Mind Screw Chuck Cunningham Syndrome The Mafia Mighty Whitey Reckless Gun Usage Attempted Rape Neck Lift Plot Hole Catapult Nightmare Brutal Honesty Death Seeker A God Am I Break the Haughty Enemy Mine Ripped from the Headlines Manipulative Bastard Amoral Attorney Retired Badass Vampire Fiction Film Series And the Adventure Continues Award-Bait Song Artistic License – Law Shown Their Work Those Two Guys Mr. Exposition Only Known by Their Nickname Death by Adaptation Bitch in Sheep's Clothing Alpha Bitch Lock and Load Montage Due to the Dead Took a Level in Jerkass Horror Comedy Extremely Short Timespan Genre Throwback Brother–Sister Incest "Well Done, Son!" Guy Parental Incest More Dakka Half the Man He Used to Be Really Gets Around True Companions Freudian Excuse Interrupted Suicide Agony of the Feet The Chessmaster Funny Foreigner Hero Antagonist Demoted to Extra Dissonant Serenity Homage Dramatic Gun Cock Needs Wiki Magic Love Big Bad Hair-Trigger Temper Suspiciously Similar Substitute Heroic Sacrifice Sacrificial Lion Our Zombies Are Different Bare Your Midriff Vitriolic Best Buds Screw the Rules, I'm Doing What's Right! Call-Forward Sexy Discretion Shot Noodle Incident The Hero Blatant Lies Creepy Child Military and Warfare Films Badass Grandpa Danny Peary Cult Movies List Very Loosely Based on a True Story You Killed My Father Reality Is Unrealistic Aww, Look! They Really Do Love Each Other Villainous Breakdown Apocalypse How Spanner in the Works I Need a Freaking Drink As You Know Fatal Flaw Spiritual Successor Adapted Out Body Horror Scenery Porn The Hero Dies Screw the Money, I Have Rules! Even Evil Has Standards The Un-Reveal Pay Evil unto Evil Bunny-Ears Lawyer Scenery Gorn Missing Mom Children Are Innocent Playing Gertrude Karma Houdini Not So Stoic Mooks Broken Pedestal Honor Before Reason The Mole Cool Car Undying Loyalty Pet the Dog A Father to His Men German Films Heel Realization Twist Ending Sadistic Choice Villain Opening Scene Nice Hat Death Glare Shut Up, Hannibal! Police are Useless Whole Plot Reference Recap / RiffTrax aka: Riff Trax Movies Bar Brawl Not Using the "Z" Word Fun with Acronyms "Shaggy Dog" Story Peek-a-Boo Corpse Death by Sex Blood from the Mouth Wham Shot Suspiciously Specific Denial Evil Plan Narrator Badass Normal Drill Sergeant Nasty The Alcoholic timeperiod 20 Minutes into the Future Important Haircut Disproportionate Retribution Does Not Like Shoes Fingore Bury Your Gays Only One Name Fat Bastard Storming the Castle Random Events Plot It Will Never Catch On Psychological Thriller Rule of Funny Mystery and Detective Films Self-Deprecation Driven to Suicide Crazy Jealous Guy Death by Irony Roaring Rampage of Revenge Insult Backfire One-Man Army All There in the Script Badass Longcoat Shout-Out Intrepid Reporter Intergenerational Friendship Say My Name Reasonable Authority Figure The Great Depression Improbable Aiming Skills Artistic License – Geography Rule of Three Advertised Extra '80s Hair Punctuated! For! Emphasis! Index of Film Westerns Major Injury Underreaction Only a Flesh Wound Fanservice Framing Device Covers Always Lie Tempting Fate Adaptational Villainy Sci-Fi Horror Big Bad Duumvirate The Dreaded He Knows Too Much Eye Scream Smug Snake Deal with the Devil All Girls Want Bad Boys One Steve Limit Guns Akimbo Drugs Are Bad Real Life Black Dude Dies First Hong Kong Films As Long as It Sounds Foreign Fainting Police Brutality Disguised in Drag Ms. Fanservice Coming-of-Age Story This Is Gonna Suck The Smurfette Principle Morality Pet Cat Scare I Have Your Wife Politically Incorrect Villain The Lancer There Is No Kill Like Overkill Left the Background Music On Smoking Is Cool Running Gag Recycled IN SPACE! Plucky Comic Relief Pretty in Mink Red Eyes, Take Warning Eagleland Even Evil Has Loved Ones Never Trust a Trailer aka: Trailers Always Lie Vomit Discretion Shot After the End Fake Shemp Facial Horror Bound and Gagged Downer Ending Country Matters For Want of a Nail Man on Fire Anachronic Order I Just Shot Marvin in the Face Faux Affably Evil Suddenly SHOUTING! Leitmotif Rape Is a Special Kind of Evil Scary Black Man Gorn The Faceless Demonic Possession Conspicuous CG Gold Digger Bond Villain Stupidity Hero of Another Story Sliding Scale of Idealism vs. Cynicism Berserk Button Bald of Evil Only in It for the Money Cool Old Lady I'm a Humanitarian Meaningful Name Would Hit a Girl Why Don't You Just Shoot Him? Rich Bitch Animal Motifs Dying Moment of Awesome What Happened to the Mouse? Horror Films Why Did It Have to Be Snakes? Sports Stories Canadian Movies Beauty Is Never Tarnished Bavarian Fire Drill Big-Bad Ensemble Crouching Moron, Hidden Badass Thriller Action Prologue Chewing the Scenery Break the Cutie Babies Ever After Historical Hero Upgrade Names to Run Away from Really Fast BFG A Date with Rosie Palms He Who Fights Monsters Comically Missing the Point No OSHA Compliance Poor Communication Kills Disappeared Dad Diabolus ex Machina Heel–Face Turn Butt-Monkey Exactly What It Says on the Tin Adaptation Name Change Love Triangle Broken Aesop Exact Words French Films Villain Ball Room Full of Crazy Central Theme Offscreen Moment of Awesome Adaptation Expansion Obviously Evil Funny Background Event Ambiguous Ending Spiteful Spit The Dragon A.I. Is a Crapshoot World of Ham Adults Are Useless Line-of-Sight Name Bland-Name Product Dark Action Girl Car Fu Knight Templar Well-Intentioned Extremist Faking the Dead Laughing Mad Actually Pretty Funny Artistic License – Gun Safety Affably Evil Christmas Movies Index Slasher Movie The Bully All Men Are Perverts Killed Mid-Sentence Meaningful Background Event Cluster F-Bomb Even Bad Men Love Their Mamas Documentary Face Death with Dignity Humiliation Conga Immune to Bullets Every Car Is a Pinto Cowboy Cop Here We Go Again! Better to Die than Be Killed Blonde, Brunette, Redhead Stepford Smiler Slasher Smile Belligerent Sexual Tension Protagonist Title Soundtrack Dissonance Action Girl Yandere No Ending Aside Glance Never Found the Body Zombie Stories Madness Mantra Woman Scorned Brainless Beauty My God, What Have I Done? Mugging the Monster Last-Name Basis The X of Y Henpecked Husband Adult Fear Logo Joke Dutch Angle Deus ex Machina Romantic Comedy A Minor Kidroduction Japanese Films It's All About Me Ugly Guy, Hot Wife Badass Bookworm Match Cut Grievous Bottley Harm Film Noir Index Jerk with a Heart of Gold Black Comedy Obstructive Bureaucrat Ironic Echo Stock Footage Loads and Loads of Characters Becoming the Mask Pimped-Out Dress Friend to All Children Rewatch Bonus Dramatic Irony The Stoner Fantasy Films Hollywood Law Roger Ebert: Great Movies List Imagine Spot Ooh, Me Accent's Slipping Fish out of Water Adorkable Creative Closing Credits Ragtag Bunch of Misfits Red Right Hand Pre-Mortem One-Liner Revenge La Résistance Manly Tears Annoying Younger Sibling Vomit Indiscretion Shot Once More, with Clarity! I Did What I Had to Do Arc Words Overly Long Gag The Bad Guy Wins Obfuscating Stupidity Gainax Ending In the Back Casting Gag Dressing as the Enemy Red Oni, Blue Oni Wham Line N-Word Privileges Redshirt Army Ship Tease Superhero Pre-Asskicking One-Liner All for Nothing Awesome, but Impractical Punch-Clock Villain Contrived Coincidence Drowning My Sorrows Villain Song Works Set in World War II The '90s Fan Disservice Animal Title Index Failed a Spot Check Book-Ends Arson, Murder, and Jaywalking Celebrity Paradox The Ace Same Language Dub Big Eater Action Film, Quiet Drama Scene Evil-Detecting Dog Gender Flip Shell-Shocked Veteran Bittersweet Ending Adaptation Distillation Four-Temperament Ensemble Handicapped Badass Beta Couple Dwindling Party The Cameo Put on a Bus Market-Based Title Laser-Guided Karma Unusually Uninteresting Sight Anti-Hero Dull Surprise Throwing Your Sword Always Works Hooker with a Heart of Gold The Ditz Armor-Piercing Question Bring My Brown Pants Malevolent Masked Men Improvised Weapon Bad Boss Black Best Friend Hidden Depths Gilligan Cut Mr. Fanservice Skewed Priorities The Casanova Eureka Moment Didn't Think This Through Corpsing Show Within a Show Green-Eyed Monster Corrupt Corporate Executive Creator Cameo Woobie, Destroyer of Worlds Ominous Latin Chanting Credits Gag Captain Ersatz Italian Films An Arm and a Leg Non-Indicative Name Cruel and Unusual Death No-Sell Your Head A-Splode Aluminum Christmas Trees Hypocritical Humor It Can Think Word of God Adaptation Dye-Job Spared by the Adaptation Gory Discretion Shot The Place Eyepatch of Power Rasputinian Death Auto Erotica The '70s Fantastic Racism Beard of Evil Psychopathic Manchild Anachronism Stew Kill It with Fire Sequel Escalation Hope Spot Bloody Hilarious Chase Scene Flashback The Reveal Precision F-Strike Bowdlerise Wrong Genre Savvy My Greatest Failure Unwitting Instigator of Doom The Alleged Car Science Fiction Films Sanity Slippage Drives Like Crazy Made of Iron Tranquil Fury Author Appeal Crucified Hero Shot Batman Gambit Continuity Nod Posthumous Character Fire-Forged Friends Call-Back Pyrrhic Victory Sealed Evil in a Can Double-Meaning Title Sudden Sequel Death Syndrome Heterosexual Life-Partners Establishing Character Moment Evil Brit Early-Bird Cameo B-Movie The Load Evil Counterpart Famous Last Words Off-into-the-Distance Ending Blood Knight Historical Villain Upgrade How We Got Here Jump Scare Red Herring Spell My Name with an "S" Kubrick Stare Empathic Environment Department of Redundancy Department Naïve Newcomer What You Are in the Dark Distracted by the Sexy Have a Gay Old Time Rape as Drama From Nobody to Nightmare Deliberate Values Dissonance Australian Movies Ambiguous Disorder Disney Death Big Brother Instinct Betty and Veronica NO INDOOR VOICE The Musical Dies Wide Open Setting Update Crapsack World Dark Reprise All There in the Manual Married to the Job Pragmatic Villainy The Un-Favourite aka: The Un Favorite An Axe to Grind Genre Savvy Blackmail Double Entendre Lampshade Hanging Bullying a Dragon Television Movie Index The Power of Love Almost Kiss Action Survivor Brick Joke The Ghost Getting Crap Past the Radar Together in Death Cloudcuckoolander Hell Is That Noise Ax-Crazy And Starring Stalker with a Crush Evil Cannot Comprehend Good Ambiguously Gay Artistic License – Biology Amusing Injuries The Stoic Rousing Speech The Oner Idiot Ball Asshole Victim Dirty Coward Our Vampires Are Different Deadpan Snarker Cool Guns Cool Shades Combat Pragmatist Film Noir Trailers Always Spoil Implacable Man Unusual Euphemism Disney Villain Death Time Skip Reality Ensues The '80s Informed Ability Offscreen Teleportation Those Wacky Nazis Paper-Thin Disguise Camera Abuse Dual Wielding Papa Wolf Fate Worse than Death Unresolved Sexual Tension Gratuitous English My Beloved Smother Bi the Way Heroes Want Redheads Overprotective Dad Oh, Crap! Retirony Romantic False Lead Pretty Little Headshots Freeze-Frame Bonus Crazy-Prepared Age Lift Eiffel Tower Effect Silent Movie Epic Movie Deliberately Monochrome The Big Guy Cool Old Guy Despair Event Horizon Abhorrent Admirer Character Development Greater-Scope Villain O.O.C. Is Serious Business Meet Cute Ungrateful Bastard "Awesome McCool" Name Back from the Dead Affectionate Parody Breaking the Fourth Wall Anti-Villain No Good Deed Goes Unpunished Gone Horribly Right Not So Above It All Manic Pixie Dream Girl Action Genre Femme Fatale Manchild Did Not Get the Girl Moment Killer Properly Paranoid Badass in a Nice Suit Dirty Cop War Is Hell The '50s Expository Hairstyle Change Martial Arts Movie Fiery Redhead Antagonist Title Genre Shift Public Domain Feature Films Truth in Television Reality Has No Subtitles Small Name, Big Ego Stealth Pun I Want My Beloved to Be Happy Biopic Domestic Abuse Evil Sounds Deep In Name Only Villain Protagonist Soft Glass And I Must Scream Taking the Bullet Kill 'em All Motor Mouth Russian Films Jitter Cam Horror Doesn't Settle for Simple Tuesday Curse Cut Short Fourth Date Marriage Victoria's Secret Compartment Cold-Blooded Torture MacGuffin Cassandra Truth Parental Substitute Dropped a Bridge on Him Training Montage Take That! For the Evulz Mistaken for Gay Make It Look Like an Accident Bait-and-Switch Dirty Old Man Meaningful Echo Mama Bear Toplessness from the Back The Brute Adaptational Attractiveness Sole Survivor Mundane Made Awesome Refuge in Audacity As the Good Book Says... Badass Boast Guile Hero Too Dumb to Live Actor Allusion Hoist by His Own Petard Ghost Fiction Large Ham Male Gaze Monumental Damage Worthy Opponent May–December Romance Pragmatic Adaptation Parental Neglect Jerk Jock Older Than They Look The Film of the Book Death of a Child Grey and Gray Morality Bolivian Army Ending Not So Different The Smart Guy Punny Name Hair of Gold, Heart of Gold Unspoken Plan Guarantee Slashed Throat Love at First Sight Wretched Hive Early Installment Weirdness Author Avatar Frame-Up Colour-Coded for Your Convenience aka: Color Coded For Your Convenience One-Word Title Screw the Rules, I Have Money! Humans Are Bastards Mythology Gag Male Frontal Nudity In Medias Res Determinator aka: The Determinator Closed Circle Calling the Old Man Out Psycho for Hire Catch-Phrase Cat Fight Artistic License – Physics Five-Man Band British Films Damsel in Distress Get Out! Naked People Are Funny Never Trust a Trailer Dogged Nice Guy Kids Are Cruel Music Stories Only Sane Man The Vamp She's Got Legs Mercy Kill Wicked Cultured Big Fancy House Ascended Extra Adaptational Badass Groin Attack Re-Cut Super Strength The Sociopath Totally Radical The Lost Lenore "Where Are They Now?" Epilogue Heroic BSoD Darker and Edgier Costume Porn It's Personal Historical-Domain Character The Stinger Evil Is Petty Sassy Black Woman The Cavalry Hate Sink Jack Bauer Interrogation Technique Black Comedy Rape Cain and Abel Earn Your Happy Ending Dark and Troubled Past Big Applesauce Bond One-Liner Riddle for the Ages Card-Carrying Villain Camp Gay The Voiceless Bottomless Magazines Men Are the Expendable Gender You Have Failed Me All Just a Dream Dramedy Good Is Not Nice Developing Doomed Characters Redemption Equals Death Big Damn Heroes Never My Fault As Himself Happily Married Take a Third Option Maybe Magic, Maybe Mundane The Dog Bites Back Arranged Marriage folderlabel Sequel Hook Up to Eleven Not What It Looks Like Hollywood Darkness Your Cheating Heart Anguished Declaration of Love Fanservice Extra Chekhov's Skill Taking You with Me The Atoner Air-Vent Passageway Final Girl Authority Equals Asskicking Epic Fail Alliterative Name Race Lift