Tropescilloscope: Card-Carrying Villain

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

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