Tropescilloscope: Alas, Poor Villain

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

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