Tropescilloscope: Even Evil Has Loved Ones

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

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