Tropescilloscope: Even Evil Has Loved Ones

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

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