Tropescilloscope: Evil Brit

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

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