Tropescilloscope: Card-Carrying Villain

He's a villain and proud of it. (read more at tvtropes.org)

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