Tropescilloscope: Bond Villain Stupidity

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

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