Tropescilloscope: Even Evil Has Loved Ones

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

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