Tropescilloscope: Even Evil Has Loved Ones

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

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