Tropescilloscope: Even Evil Has Standards

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

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