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