Tropescilloscope: All Girls Want Bad Boys

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

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