Tropescilloscope: Even Evil Has Loved Ones

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

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