Tropescilloscope: Even Evil Has Standards

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

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