Tropescilloscope: All Girls Want Bad Boys

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

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