Tropescilloscope: Evil Brit

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

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