Tropescilloscope: Bond Villain Stupidity

Hero gets dinner and an easily escapable death trap instead of just shooting him already! (read more at tvtropes.org)

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