Tropescilloscope: Evil Brit

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

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