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