Tropescilloscope: Evil Cannot Comprehend Good

A villain loses because he is incapable of understanding what motivates the good. (read more at tvtropes.org)

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Catch-Phrase Jerk Jock Canon Foreigner Credits Gag Death Glare Smoking Is Cool The '60s Silence Is Golden Papa Wolf Better to Die than Be Killed Vomit Discretion Shot Slasher Smile "The Reason You Suck" Speech Conspicuous CG Bowdlerise MacGuffin Earn Your Happy Ending The Dreaded The '90s Hell Is That Noise Cat Scare Ghost Fiction Thriller From Bad to Worse The Bully Author Appeal Twist Ending No Antagonist Very Loosely Based on a True Story Slasher Movie Dark Is Not Evil Adaptation Name Change Love Triangle Dirty Old Man Hero Antagonist Idiot Ball Cool Guns An Axe to Grind Instant Death Bullet Vacation Films Death by Irony Cassandra Truth Curb-Stomp Battle Ugly Guy, Hot Wife The Atoner Only a Flesh Wound Psycho for Hire My Greatest Failure Spiritual Successor Undying Loyalty Cool Old Guy Hope Spot Kill 'em All Villain Protagonist What the Hell, Hero? It's All About Me Death Seeker The Starscream She's Got Legs Evil Is Petty Implacable Man Disguised in Drag Nothing Is Scarier Only One Name Kill It with Fire O.O.C. Is Serious Business Our Zombies Are Different Crucified Hero Shot Humans Are Bastards Getting Crap Past the Radar Country Matters Children Are Innocent Scare Chord Easily Forgiven Kick the Son of a Bitch Spanner in the Works Married to the Job Naïve Newcomer The Bad Guy Wins Celebrity Paradox Action Genre Real Life Freeze-Frame Bonus Damsel in Distress Take That! He Knows Too Much Neck Lift Fun with Acronyms Red Herring Destination Defenestration Why Don't You Just Shoot Him? The Hero Dies All There in the Manual Madness Mantra Ship Tease Action Prologue Pimped-Out Dress The Dog Bites Back Bilingual Bonus Anachronic Order Lampshade Hanging Recap / RiffTrax aka: Riff Trax Movies timeperiod Lighter and Softer Older Than They Look Fan Disservice Love at First Sight Hooker with a Heart of Gold Adaptation Expansion Apocalypse How Villain Opening Scene Nice Job Breaking It, Hero! It Can Think Stalker with a Crush Bad Boss Curse Cut Short Covers Always Lie Bald of Evil Half the Man He Used to Be Artistic License – History Fainting Bi the Way Sci-Fi Horror British Films Same Language Dub Match Cut Room Full of Crazy Made of Explodium Sadistic Choice Lock and Load Montage Black Dude Dies First Call-Back Heterosexual Life-Partners Sealed Evil in a Can Major Injury Underreaction Actor Allusion Toilet Humour aka: Toilet Humor Punctuated! For! Emphasis! Hypocrite Suspiciously Specific Denial And the Adventure Continues Screw the Rules, I'm Doing What's Right! 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Bottomless Magazines Pre-Mortem One-Liner Karma Houdini The Hero Frame-Up For Want of a Nail Retcon Missing Mom The Vamp Back from the Dead Artistic License – Military Maybe Magic, Maybe Mundane Super Strength Silent Movie Translation Convention Shirtless Scene Loophole Abuse Colour-Coded for Your Convenience aka: Color Coded For Your Convenience Dual Wielding Dressing as the Enemy Unusual Euphemism What Happened to the Mouse? The Great Depression Hate Sink Plot Hole Ambiguous Ending Up to Eleven Artistic License – Gun Safety The Remake Ragtag Bunch of Misfits Mundane Made Awesome Flashback Dirty Coward Male Gaze Scary Black Man May–December Romance Large Ham Names to Run Away from Really Fast Villain with Good Publicity Mythology Gag Ironic Echo And Starring Jitter Cam Combat Pragmatist Hong Kong Films Eiffel Tower Effect Antagonist Title Pragmatic Adaptation Screw the Rules, I Have Money! Shower Scene Race Lift Blonde, Brunette, Redhead Real Life Writes the Plot Age Lift Jerkass Badass in a Nice Suit Paper-Thin Disguise The Chick Accidental Murder Bittersweet Ending Our Vampires Are Different Chase Scene Music Stories Death of a Child The Stinger Red Right Hand Faking the Dead It Will Never Catch On Ripped from the Headlines Adaptational Badass Neck Snap Men Are the Expendable Gender Deadpan Snarker Important Haircut The Lancer Adaptation Distillation The End... Or Is It? Logo Joke Race Against the Clock Final Girl Spell My Name with an "S" All Girls Want Bad Boys Ass Shove Eldritch Abomination Beard of Evil Properly Paranoid In Medias Res Kids Are Cruel Mexican Standoff Not Quite Dead Film Series Creepy Child Storming the Castle Crazy Jealous Guy Sole Survivor Award-Bait Song Insult Backfire Humiliation Conga Gainax Ending Annoying Younger Sibling Armor-Piercing Question Stuff Blowing Up Screw This, I'm Outta Here! 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Narrator Grievous Bottley Harm Nice Guy One Steve Limit Blood from the Mouth Corrupt Corporate Executive Depraved Bisexual Fat Bastard Cat Fight The Lost Lenore Film Noir Index Air-Vent Passageway I Want My Beloved to Be Happy Deus ex Machina Hollywood Law Japanese Films Abhorrent Admirer Evil Is Hammy Suspiciously Similar Substitute Arch-Enemy Captain Obvious Sacrificial Lion Visual Pun Loads and Loads of Characters Red Oni, Blue Oni Hero of Another Story Decoy Protagonist Action Film, Quiet Drama Scene Bury Your Gays Belligerent Sexual Tension Ascended Extra Guile Hero Amoral Attorney A God Am I Those Two Guys True Companions Big Eater Affably Evil Pragmatic Villainy Alas, Poor Villain Film Noir Double Entendre Token Minority Small Name, Big Ego Protagonist Title Animal Title Index Creator Cameo Redemption Equals Death It's Personal Trailers Always Spoil Freudian Excuse Anti-Villain Offscreen Teleportation Ambiguous Disorder I Did What I Had to Do Bitch in Sheep's Clothing Bolivian Army Ending Anyone Can Die Imagine Spot Epic Fail No Celebrities Were Harmed Reckless Gun Usage Karmic Death Department of Redundancy Department Random Events Plot Fatal Flaw Police are Useless Determinator Pun aka: Incredibly Lame Pun Totally Radical Babies Ever After Big Applesauce Unusually Uninteresting Sight La Résistance Aside Glance Obstructive Bureaucrat Man on Fire Drowning My Sorrows The Brute Rule of Symbolism Unwitting Instigator of Doom No Ending The Oner "Well Done, Son!" Guy Television Movie Index The Big Guy Evil-Detecting Dog Brutal Honesty Death by Adaptation Big "NO!" Brother–Sister Incest Scenery Porn Blackmail Roaring Rampage of Revenge "Where Are They Now?" Epilogue Fourth Date Marriage Take a Third Option Peek-a-Boo Corpse Never My Fault Mad Scientist The Stoic The Stoner Worthy Opponent Big Damn Heroes Wretched Hive For the Evulz Even Bad Men Love Their Mamas Mama Bear Gone Horribly Right I'm a Humanitarian Rape Is a Special Kind of Evil Historical In-Joke Call-Forward Gory Discretion Shot Evil vs. Evil Would Hurt a Child Have a Gay Old Time As You Know Last-Name Basis Accidental Misnaming Dissonant Serenity Eureka Moment Rich Bitch Eyepatch of Power Dramatic Irony Make It Look Like an Accident Soft Glass Unresolved Sexual Tension Determinator aka: The Determinator Tranquil Fury Blood Knight Disney Villain Death This Is Gonna Suck Four-Temperament Ensemble Evil Plan Artistic License – Geography Animated Credits Opening Contrived Coincidence Deconstruction Becoming the Mask Catapult Nightmare Deal with the Devil Chuck Cunningham Syndrome The Power of Love Self-Deprecation Jump Scare The Load Not So Stoic Jerkass Has a Point Betty and Veronica Driven to Suicide Dark and Troubled Past Casting Gag Henpecked Husband Obfuscating Stupidity Too Dumb to Live Mighty Whitey Villainous Breakdown Dull Surprise Taking the Bullet Friend to All Children Double-Meaning Title Alliterative Name Death by Sex Say My Name Tap on the Head Science Fiction Films Mooks Shell-Shocked Veteran The '80s Artistic License – Biology Not Using the "Z" Word Naked People Are Funny Chekhov's Gun Foreshadowing Unreliable Narrator Grey and Gray Morality Funny Background Event Break the Cutie Almost Kiss Stealth Pun Refuge in Audacity German Films Big Bad Duumvirate Expository Hairstyle Change The X of Y Sinister Minister Immune to Bullets Those Two Bad Guys Shoot the Shaggy Dog N-Word Privileges Bloody Hilarious Beware the Nice Ones Badass Boast Killed Mid-Sentence Book-Ends Eye Scream All Just a Dream Bait-and-Switch Character Development Broken Bird Line-of-Sight Name What You Are in the Dark You Have Outlived Your Usefulness Vomit Indiscretion Shot Fingore Stock Footage Plucky Comic Relief Wham Shot Fantasy Films Break the Haughty Affectionate Parody Title Drop Composite Character Rated M for Manly No-Sell Heel–Face Turn The Cameo Zombie Stories Tempting Fate Reasonable Authority Figure Pre-Asskicking One-Liner Daylight Horror Big Bad Bare Your Midriff Arson, Murder, and Jaywalking Posthumous Character Darkest Hour Shut Up, Hannibal! Camp Gay Leaning on the Fourth Wall Parental Incest Biopic Documentary In Name Only Distracted by the Sexy Hair-Trigger Temper Blatant Lies Truth in Television My God, What Have I Done? Jerk with a Heart of Gold Historical Hero Upgrade Gilligan Cut Maybe Ever After Advertised Extra Only in It for the Money Light Is Not Good Drugs Are Bad Bond Villain Stupidity Fanservice Manipulative Bastard Car Fu Sports Stories Heroes Want Redheads Groin Attack Screw the Money, I Have Rules! Psychopathic Manchild Cowboy Cop Parental Abandonment Reality Ensues Fish out of Water Darker and Edgier Badass Longcoat Riddle for the Ages The Mole Extreme Doormat Vampire Fiction Knife Nut The Ace There Is No Kill Like Overkill Dramedy Laughing Mad Running Gag Male Frontal Nudity Here We Go Again! 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They Really Do Love Each Other Re-Cut Handicapped Badass Homage Word of God Gender Flip Well-Intentioned Extremist Body Horror A Date with Rosie Palms Ambiguously Gay Never Found the Body Adaptation Dye-Job Cloudcuckoolander Rasputinian Death One-Word Title NO INDOOR VOICE Mistaken for Gay Disproportionate Retribution Christmas Movies Index Suddenly SHOUTING! Early-Bird Cameo Imperial Stormtrooper Marksmanship Academy Crouching Moron, Hidden Badass An Arm and a Leg Ominous Latin Chanting Psychological Thriller From Nobody to Nightmare The Voiceless Smug Snake Abusive Parents The Smart Guy Fiery Redhead Works Set in World War II Historical Villain Upgrade Black Comedy Green-Eyed Monster Arranged Marriage Flipping the Bird Your Cheating Heart Wounded Gazelle Gambit Everyone Calls Him "Barkeep" I Just Shot Marvin in the Face All There in the Script Ms. Fanservice Didn't Think This Through Parental Neglect Bunny-Ears Lawyer Revenge The Smurfette Principle Punch-Clock Villain Boom, Headshot! Even Evil Has Standards Retired Badass Needs Wiki Magic Love Expy Heel Realization Knight Templar Police Brutality Malevolent Masked Men Redshirt Army Does This Remind You of Anything? 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Dutch Angle Drill Sergeant Nasty Framing Device Bar Brawl Off-into-the-Distance Ending My Beloved Smother Gold Digger Batman Gambit B-Movie Really Gets Around Fate Worse than Death Italian Films Fake Shemp Yandere Motor Mouth Daddy's Girl Establishing Character Moment Hollywood Darkness Market-Based Title Taking You with Me Morality Pet Interrupted Suicide Sir Swears-a-Lot The Chessmaster No Name Given Demoted to Extra 20 Minutes into the Future Star-Crossed Lovers Villain Song Danny Peary Cult Movies List The Alcoholic And I Must Scream Horror Films Only Known by Their Nickname As Himself Manly Tears More Dakka Exact Words Once More, with Clarity! A Father to His Men Early Installment Weirdness Bavarian Fire Drill Reality Is Unrealistic The Un-Favourite aka: The Un Favorite Did Not Get the Girl The Sociopath French Films Cain and Abel Auto Erotica Broken Aesop Bullying a Dragon Mr. Exposition Manchild Rule of Cool folderlabel Adults Are Useless Closed Circle Foil Shown Their Work Impaled with Extreme Prejudice Badass Grandpa Overly Long Gag Big-Bad Ensemble War Is Hell Kick the Dog Woman in White Dying Moment of Awesome Get Out! Be Careful What You Wish For Mystery and Detective Films Exactly What It Says on the Tin Continuity Nod Jack Bauer Interrogation Technique Meaningful Background Event Insane Troll Logic The '70s Sir Not-Appearing-in-This-Trailer Slashed Throat No OSHA Compliance Romantic Comedy Black Comedy Rape Disney Death Soundtrack Dissonance Pretty Little Headshots Obviously Evil Mercy Kill Heroic Sacrifice Alpha Bitch Informed Ability The Faceless Evil Laugh Bland-Name Product Mood Whiplash Developing Doomed Characters Hypocritical Humor Fatal Family Photo Cluster F-Bomb BFG Authority Equals Asskicking Poor Communication Kills Wham Line Oh, Crap! I Need a Freaking Drink Put on a Bus Not What It Looks Like Outrun the Fireball