Tropescilloscope: Bad Boss

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

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