Tropescilloscope: Even Evil Has Standards

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

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