Tropescilloscope: Evil Brit

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

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