Tropescilloscope: All Girls Want Bad Boys

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

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