Tropescilloscope: Alas, Poor Villain

The villain's death or downfall is painted in a sympathetic light. (read more at tvtropes.org)

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