Tropescilloscope: Evil Brit

Posh British accent = upper-class evil. Cockney accent = thuggish evil. (read more at tvtropes.org)

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