Tropescilloscope: Bad Boss

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

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