Tropescilloscope: Even Evil Has Standards

Some things are too vile even for a villain to do. (read more at tvtropes.org)

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