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