Tropescilloscope: All Girls Want Bad Boys

A woman is attracted to a man because he's 'bad'. (read more at tvtropes.org)

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