Tropescilloscope: Affably Evil

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

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