Tropescilloscope: Affably Evil

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

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