Tropescilloscope: Bad Boss

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

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