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