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