Tropescilloscope: Bad Boss

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

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