Tropescilloscope: Affably Evil

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

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