Tropescilloscope: Even Evil Has Loved Ones

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

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