Tropescilloscope: Corrupt Corporate Executive

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

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