Tropescilloscope: Even Evil Has Loved Ones

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

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