Tropescilloscope: Affably Evil

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

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