Tropescilloscope: All Girls Want Bad Boys

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

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