Tropescilloscope: Bad Boss

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

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