Tropescilloscope: All Girls Want Bad Boys

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

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