Tropescilloscope: Even Evil Has Loved Ones

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

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