Tropescilloscope: Affably Evil

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

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