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