Tropescilloscope: Even Evil Has Standards

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

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