Tropescilloscope: Affably Evil

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

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