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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Improbable Infant Survival aka: Infant Immortality Pay Evil unto Evil Taking You with Me Madness Mantra Red Shirt Made of Iron Adults Are Useless The Voiceless And I Must Scream No OSHA Compliance Fanservice Missing Mom Bond One-Liner Parental Substitute A God Am I Not Quite Dead Danny Peary Cult Movies List Race Against the Clock Have a Gay Old Time Retired Badass folderlabel Chekhov's Gun Dual Wielding Gender Flip Mad Scientist Implacable Man Death Seeker Overly Long Gag Peek-a-Boo Corpse Kick the Dog Central Theme Determinator Facial Horror Comically Missing the Point Black Comedy Serious Business 20 Minutes into the Future Sexy Discretion Shot Romantic False Lead Historical-Domain Character Soundtrack Dissonance Sliding Scale of Idealism vs. Cynicism Dark Reprise Ironic Echo Canon Foreigner Adaptation Dye-Job Gilligan Cut Reality Has No Subtitles The Place Eureka Moment The Hero Dies Spiritual Successor He Who Fights Monsters One-Man Army Dirty Old Man Get Out! 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Darker and Edgier Double Entendre Love at First Sight Ragtag Bunch of Misfits Villain Protagonist Room Full of Crazy Title Drop Girl-on-Girl Is Hot Apocalypse How Vampire Fiction Laser-Guided Karma Toplessness from the Back Pre-Mortem One-Liner Never Trust a Trailer Demoted to Extra A Father to His Men Damsel in Distress Biopic Not Even Bothering with the Accent Decoy Protagonist Action Survivor The Mole Badass Grandpa No Good Deed Goes Unpunished Sealed Evil in a Can Actor Allusion The '70s And the Adventure Continues Deliberate Values Dissonance Canadian Movies The Faceless Those Wacky Nazis Never Found the Body Stealth Pun Mama Bear Wicked Cultured Idiot Ball Dressing as the Enemy Gory Discretion Shot Handicapped Badass Bad Boss Heroic BSoD Homage A Minor Kidroduction Suddenly SHOUTING! Grievous Bottley Harm Darkest Hour All Just a Dream Ambiguous Ending Card-Carrying Villain Not What It Looks Like Foil Villain Opening Scene Historical In-Joke Affably Evil Mexican Standoff Animated Credits Opening Slasher Movie Last-Name Basis Jack Bauer Interrogation Technique Anachronism Stew Vomit Discretion Shot Skewed Priorities Sequel Hook Bond Villain Stupidity The Lost Lenore Hidden Depths Contrived Coincidence Time Skip Catapult Nightmare timeperiod Nice Guy Jump Scare Shell-Shocked Veteran Only Sane Man "Well Done, Son!" Guy Domestic Abuse Animal Motifs Dies Wide Open Smug Snake Scenery Porn Sacrificial Lion Dropped a Bridge on Him Framing Device Offscreen Moment of Awesome Frame-Up She Cleans Up Nicely The Stoner Foreshadowing Video Credits Rousing Speech Unreliable Narrator Death of a Child Big Brother Instinct Fanservice Extra The Great Depression Hair of Gold, Heart of Gold Hero of Another Story Woman in White Made of Explodium Depraved Bisexual Asshole Victim Mugging the Monster Death by Irony Bilingual Bonus