Tropescilloscope: Affably Evil

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

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