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