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