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