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