Tropescilloscope: Affably Evil

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

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