Tropescilloscope: Even Evil Has Loved Ones

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

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