Tropescilloscope: Even Evil Has Standards

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

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