Tropescilloscope: Evil Brit

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

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