Tropescilloscope: Even Evil Has Loved Ones

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

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