Tropescilloscope: Evil Brit

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

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