Tropescilloscope: Evil Brit

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

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