Tropescilloscope: Evil Brit

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

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