Tropescilloscope: Affably Evil

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

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