Tropescilloscope: Bad Boss

A villain who abuses his/her minions. (read more at tvtropes.org)

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