Tropescilloscope: Card-Carrying Villain

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

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