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