Tropescilloscope: Even Evil Has Loved Ones

Villains love their family and friends like anyone else. (read more at tvtropes.org)

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