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