Tropescilloscope: Corrupt Corporate Executive

A villain who runs a corporation. (read more at tvtropes.org)

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Taking You with Me Twist Ending Beta Couple Tap on the Head Bond One-Liner British Films Sacrificial Lion Fatal Family Photo Ascended Extra Hoist by His Own Petard Match Cut Slasher Smile And I Must Scream Worthy Opponent Never My Fault Eiffel Tower Effect timeperiod Badass Bookworm Instant Death Bullet Broken Pedestal Evil Cannot Comprehend Good Parental Incest Jerk with a Heart of Gold Deadpan Snarker Romantic Comedy Antagonist Title Protagonist Title Peek-a-Boo Corpse Failed a Spot Check Defrosting Ice Queen Gratuitous English Reckless Gun Usage Big Brother Instinct Age Lift Femme Fatale Politically Incorrect Villain Captain Obvious Dropped a Bridge on Him Sanity Slippage Animal Motifs Mr. Exposition Alpha Bitch The Oner How We Got Here Papa Wolf Composite Character From Bad to Worse Children Are Innocent Mugging the Monster Imperial Stormtrooper Marksmanship Academy Small Name, Big Ego Light Is Not Good Super Strength Not Even Bothering with the Accent Bald of Evil Blood from the Mouth Betty and Veronica Public Domain Feature Films Bowdlerise Award-Bait Song Double Entendre It's All About Me Deal with the Devil The Hero Dies Chiaroscuro Informed Ability Call-Forward The Musical Shell-Shocked Veteran Toilet Humour aka: Toilet Humor Real Life Self-Deprecation Our Vampires Are Different Dramedy Humans Are Bastards Took a Level in Jerkass Batman Gambit Dogged Nice Guy Kick the Dog Punny Name Once More, with Clarity! 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Action Genre Very Loosely Based on a True Story Henpecked Husband Put on a Bus Artistic License – Physics Famous Last Words I Did What I Had to Do Contrived Coincidence Blood Knight Serial Killer Dark Reprise Big Damn Heroes Red Shirt Blonde, Brunette, Redhead Redshirt Army Girl-on-Girl Is Hot Hero of Another Story Jitter Cam What You Are in the Dark Ambiguous Disorder Gory Discretion Shot Genre Throwback Affably Evil As the Good Book Says... 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Ambiguous Ending Blackmail Crucified Hero Shot Badass in a Nice Suit Creepy Child Hate Sink Anti-Hero Overly Long Gag Horror Doesn't Settle for Simple Tuesday Manchild Hidden Depths Alliterative Name One-Man Army Dirty Coward Kids Are Cruel Made of Explodium Index of Film Westerns Spanner in the Works Dies Wide Open Never Trust a Trailer aka: Trailers Always Lie After the End Ungrateful Bastard Woman Scorned Curse Cut Short Breaking the Fourth Wall Dual Wielding Crapsack World Despair Event Horizon Your Cheating Heart Neck Snap Too Dumb to Live The Alleged Car Sir Not-Appearing-in-This-Trailer Biopic The Starscream Creative Closing Credits Camp Gay Roaring Rampage of Revenge "The Reason You Suck" Speech Decoy Protagonist Insistent Terminology You Have Failed Me Arc Words The Reveal Imagine Spot Chase Scene Eyepatch of Power Epic Movie What Happened to the Mouse? Villain Opening Scene Cruel and Unusual Death Cool Old Guy Improbable Infant Survival aka: Infant Immortality Roger Ebert: Great Movies List Sliding Scale of Idealism vs. Cynicism Karma Houdini All Just a Dream O.O.C. Is Serious Business Translation Convention Left the Background Music On Fate Worse than Death Brutal Honesty And the Adventure Continues Hypocrite Sole Survivor Canadian Movies Shout-Out Only Known by Their Nickname Major Injury Underreaction Man on Fire Soft Glass Honor Before Reason Eldritch Abomination Diabolus ex Machina Interrupted Suicide Alas, Poor Villain Gender Flip Black and Gray Morality Overprotective Dad Aside Glance Earn Your Happy Ending Off-into-the-Distance Ending Kill 'em All The Power of Love Cold-Blooded Torture Death Seeker Spell My Name with an "S" A Father to His Men As Himself Why Did It Have to Be Snakes? Armor-Piercing Question Even Evil Has Standards Storming the Castle Bar Brawl Anti-Villain 20 Minutes into the Future Riddle for the Ages Fantasy Films More Dakka The Bad Guy Wins Death Glare Adaptation Distillation Greater-Scope Villain Rule of Three Groin Attack Improbable Weapon User Retcon Fun with Acronyms Sexy Discretion Shot Implacable Man Death by Irony Everyone Has Standards Faking the Dead Establishing Character Moment Crouching Moron, Hidden Badass Wretched Hive Does Not Like Shoes Serious Business Artistic License – Law Call-Back As You Know Big Bad Crazy-Prepared Big Applesauce Male Frontal Nudity Damsel in Distress Conspicuous CG Cat Fight Russian Films Heterosexual Life-Partners Expy Meaningful Echo Cain and Abel Gorn Rewatch Bonus Men Are the Expendable Gender Slashed Throat Does This Remind You of Anything? 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Wham Line Darkest Hour Freeze-Frame Bonus Bloodier and Gorier Say My Name Rape as Drama Stock Footage Improbable Aiming Skills Would Hit a Girl Nice Job Fixing It, Villain! Why Don't You Just Shoot Him? Gilligan Cut Early-Bird Cameo An Axe to Grind Black Dude Dies First Bring My Brown Pants Black Comedy Eagleland Shoot the Shaggy Dog All Men Are Perverts Pun aka: Incredibly Lame Pun Drugs Are Bad Moment Killer Wrong Genre Savvy Driven to Suicide Meaningful Name Demonic Possession Deconstruction May–December Romance Token Minority The Cavalry Shown Their Work Actually Pretty Funny Even Evil Has Loved Ones For the Evulz Action Film, Quiet Drama Scene "Shaggy Dog" Story A God Am I All for Nothing Comically Missing the Point Pre-Asskicking One-Liner Woman in White Word of God "Well Done, Son!" Guy Soundtrack Dissonance Retired Badass Crazy Jealous Guy Spared by the Adaptation Book-Ends Documentary Facial Horror Screw the Rules, I Have Money! 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