Tropescilloscope: All Girls Want Bad Boys

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

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