Tropescilloscope: Corrupt Corporate Executive

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

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There Is No Kill Like Overkill Lampshade Hanging Flashback Moment Killer She's Got Legs Badass Longcoat Bad "Bad Acting" Rule of Three Cat Scare Decoy Protagonist Animated Credits Opening Be Careful What You Wish For Chewing the Scenery Hate Sink Left the Background Music On Cold-Blooded Torture Unwitting Instigator of Doom Early-Bird Cameo Smug Snake Recap / RiffTrax aka: Riff Trax Movies Darker and Edgier Fatal Flaw No Antagonist Adaptation Dye-Job Dramatic Irony Needs Wiki Magic Love Almost Kiss Crucified Hero Shot What Happened to the Mouse? 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Facial Horror Logo Joke Shipper on Deck Skewed Priorities Fainting How We Got Here Science Fiction Films Sanity Slippage Jack Bauer Interrogation Technique Music Stories Curb-Stomp Battle Rule of Funny Breaking the Fourth Wall Title Drop Chekhov's Gun Four-Temperament Ensemble "The Reason You Suck" Speech Not What It Looks Like Adaptation Expansion Casting Gag Hidden Depths Kill It with Fire Obfuscating Stupidity Armor-Piercing Question Death by Sex Shell-Shocked Veteran You Have Failed Me Dressing as the Enemy Male Gaze Damsel in Distress Blackmail Married to the Job Arc Words Handicapped Badass Animal Motifs Bring My Brown Pants Those Two Bad Guys The Big Guy Karmic Death The Chick Costume Porn Fanservice Big Bad The Bully Anyone Can Die British Films Parental Incest Malevolent Masked Men Contrived Coincidence Framing Device Sir Not-Appearing-in-This-Trailer Action Girl The '50s Spiteful Spit Eyepatch of Power Driven to Suicide Double-Meaning Title One-Word Title Rousing Speech Big Damn Heroes Beta Couple Bitch in Sheep's Clothing Bury Your Gays Alas, Poor Villain Rich Bitch Race Lift Not So Different Have a Gay Old Time Cloudcuckoolander Immune to Bullets Dropped a Bridge on Him Parental Neglect Epic Fail Blonde, Brunette, Redhead Properly Paranoid Evil Brit Sealed Evil in a Can Eagleland Cool Shades Not Even Bothering with the Accent Femme Fatale Guile Hero Big Applesauce Expy Homage "Shaggy Dog" Story Jitter Cam The Atoner I'm a Humanitarian Mercy Kill Foil Stalker with a Crush Poor Communication Kills Babies Ever After Slashed Throat Suspiciously Similar Substitute Captain Ersatz Only Sane Man Tempting Fate Love at First Sight Adaptation Name Change Continuity Nod Film Noir The End... Or Is It? Gory Discretion Shot Word of God Calling the Old Man Out Laser-Guided Karma Roaring Rampage of Revenge Film Series Children Are Innocent Wrong Genre Savvy Drowning My Sorrows Guns Akimbo Disappeared Dad A Father to His Men Bond One-Liner It Will Never Catch On Demonic Possession Taking You with Me Dumb Blonde The Dreaded Death Seeker Heel Realization One Steve Limit Cool Guns The Hero Dies Nice Guy Mr. Fanservice Film Noir Index Vitriolic Best Buds Biopic Aww, Look! They Really Do Love Each Other Suspiciously Specific Denial Historical-Domain Character Batman Gambit Meet Cute Creative Closing Credits No Name Given Police Brutality Would Hit a Girl Precision F-Strike Break the Cutie Actor Allusion Daylight Horror Failed a Spot Check Based on a True Story Hair-Trigger Temper Never Found the Body Broken Pedestal Dark Action Girl Sequel Escalation Made of Explodium Grievous Bottley Harm All Just a Dream La Résistance Drill Sergeant Nasty Playing Gertrude Bound and Gagged B-Movie Put on a Bus Scenery Porn Book-Ends A God Am I The Alleged Car Historical Hero Upgrade Yandere The Power of Love Deal with the Devil Laughing Mad The Starscream Dull Surprise Dirty Old Man Nice Hat Fantastic Racism Jerkass The '90s Pimped-Out Dress Combat Pragmatist Double Entendre Death Glare Attempted Rape As You Know Half the Man He Used to Be Cool Old Guy The Dog Bites Back Small Name, Big Ego Red Shirt Bland-Name Product Girl-on-Girl Is Hot My God, What Have I Done? 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Is a Crapshoot Leaning on the Fourth Wall The Film of the Book More Dakka Very Loosely Based on a True Story Visual Pun Race Against the Clock Drugs Are Bad Hypocritical Humor Ambiguous Ending No-Holds-Barred Beatdown Mr. Exposition No Good Deed Goes Unpunished Whole Plot Reference Cool Car Non-Indicative Name Dual Wielding Running Gag He Who Fights Monsters Missing Mom The Smurfette Principle "Well Done, Son!" Guy Celebrity Paradox '80s Hair Obviously Evil Bittersweet Ending Video Credits Sci-Fi Horror Dark and Troubled Past Exact Words Naked People Are Funny Large Ham Artistic License – Gun Safety Woman in White Fiery Redhead Killed Mid-Sentence Badass Grandpa Sir Swears-a-Lot All There in the Manual Red Oni, Blue Oni Psychological Thriller May–December Romance Time Skip Abusive Parents Heroes Want Redheads Death by Irony Ambiguously Gay The Stinger Random Events Plot Light Is Not Good Award-Bait Song Bloody Hilarious Sacrificial Lion Would Hurt a Child In Name Only Take That! 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Foreshadowing No Celebrities Were Harmed Pragmatic Villainy Ghost Fiction Even Evil Has Loved Ones Victoria's Secret Compartment Accidental Misnaming Department of Redundancy Department Ungrateful Bastard Too Dumb to Live Downer Ending Kids Are Cruel Evil Cannot Comprehend Good Coming-of-Age Story Cowboy Cop Insane Troll Logic Red Herring Heel–Face Turn I Want My Beloved to Be Happy Fish out of Water "Where Are They Now?" Epilogue Straight Gay The Load Evil Is Hammy Oh, Crap! Adapted Out Bar Brawl Sinister Minister The Faceless Really Gets Around folderlabel Why Don't You Just Shoot Him? Daddy's Girl Famous Last Words Television Movie Index Pre-Asskicking One-Liner Bloodier and Gorier Undying Loyalty Creator Cameo Eiffel Tower Effect Shirtless Scene Did Not Get the Girl Your Head A-Splode Police are Useless Adult Fear Bait-and-Switch The Ditz Take a Third Option Thriller Deadpan Snarker Adaptational Heroism The Vamp Alliterative Name Serious Business Kick the Dog Wretched Hive Composite Character Improbable Weapon User The Dragon Frame-Up Historical In-Joke Butt-Monkey Awesome, but Impractical Better to Die than Be Killed Deconstruction What the Hell, Hero? Trailers Always Spoil Happily Married The Lancer The Musical Evil vs. Evil Deliberately Monochrome Artistic License – Military Slap-Slap-Kiss Establishing Character Moment Darkest Hour It's Personal Enemy Mine Aluminum Christmas Trees Black and Gray Morality Gender Flip Anti-Villain Mood Whiplash Shoot the Shaggy Dog Manly Tears Asshole Victim Developing Doomed Characters Blatant Lies Nice Job Breaking It, Hero! Reckless Gun Usage Never Trust a Trailer aka: Trailers Always Lie Black Comedy Big Bad Duumvirate Hair of Gold, Heart of Gold Corpsing Closed Circle Artistic License – History Romantic Comedy The Great Depression Rape Is a Special Kind of Evil Pre-Mortem One-Liner Rape as Drama Hollywood Law Freudian Excuse Spell My Name with an "S" Grey and Gray Morality Everyone Has Standards Beard of Evil Hero Antagonist Evil-Detecting Dog Soft Glass Ax-Crazy Redshirt Army Age Lift Big "NO!" "Awesome McCool" Name Spared by the Adaptation Soundtrack Dissonance Your Cheating Heart Shower Scene The Cameo Narrator Beauty Is Never Tarnished Sexy Discretion Shot Punctuated! For! Emphasis! Boom, Headshot! Our Vampires Are Different French Films Insistent Terminology Parental Abandonment Expository Hairstyle Change Off with His Head! Does This Remind You of Anything? I Just Shot Marvin in the Face Maybe Ever After Camera Abuse Chuck Cunningham Syndrome Paper-Thin Disguise You Have Outlived Your Usefulness Conspicuous CG Instant Death Bullet Jerkass Has a Point Informed Ability Mighty Whitey As the Good Book Says... Novelization Despair Event Horizon Crazy-Prepared The Quiet One Important Haircut Ooh, Me Accent's Slipping Ms. Fanservice Back from the Dead Cruel and Unusual Death Pretty Little Headshots Broken Bird Face–Heel Turn Dies Wide Open Danny Peary Cult Movies List Comically Missing the Point Scary Black Man Earn Your Happy Ending No-Sell Villain Ball Mundane Made Awesome Mystery and Detective Films Same Language Dub Artistic License – Biology All Men Are Perverts Face Death with Dignity As Himself Noodle Incident Badass in a Nice Suit The '60s Early Installment Weirdness Truth in Television Psychopathic Manchild Silence Is Golden The Stoner Exactly What It Says on the Tin Final Girl Brainless Beauty O.O.C. Is Serious Business Flipping the Bird Disproportionate Retribution Last-Name Basis You Killed My Father Jerk with a Heart of Gold Took a Level in Badass Villainous Breakdown The Un-Favourite aka: The Un Favorite Superhero Chekhov's Gunman Our Zombies Are Different Action Film, Quiet Drama Scene Manchild Bottomless Magazines No Ending Retirony Slasher Movie Translation Convention Mama Bear Red Eyes, Take Warning Totally Radical Jump Scare Mind Screw Shut Up, Hannibal!