Tropescilloscope: Corrupt Corporate Executive

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

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