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