Tropescilloscope: All Girls Want Bad Boys

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

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