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