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 Break the Haughty Dressing as the Enemy Our Vampires Are Different No Name Given Back from the Dead Butt-Monkey Adaptational Badass Badass Grandpa Does Not Like Shoes Science Fiction Films The Hero Gory Discretion Shot Flashback Due to the Dead Roger Ebert: Great Movies List Bring My Brown Pants Idiot Ball In the Back Shell-Shocked Veteran Interrupted Suicide Product Placement Horror Doesn't Settle for Simple Tuesday In Name Only Call-Forward Bald of Evil Overly Long Gag Running Gag Wicked Cultured Leitmotif Blatant Lies Male Frontal Nudity Very Loosely Based on a True Story Rewatch Bonus Children Are Innocent Male Gaze Oh, Crap! Defrosting Ice Queen Downer Ending Mad Scientist Demoted to Extra My Beloved Smother Television Movie Index Knife Nut Shipper on Deck Taking You with Me The Cavalry Works Set in World War II All Girls Want Bad Boys She Cleans Up Nicely Why Did It Have to Be Snakes? Hollywood Law Cain and Abel Corrupt Corporate Executive Bad Boss Market-Based Title Death by Irony Why Don't You Just Shoot Him? Blood Knight Canadian Movies As Long as It Sounds Foreign Friend to All Children Woobie, Destroyer of Worlds Random Events Plot Historical-Domain Character Retcon Small Name, Big Ego Sealed Evil in a Can Badass Boast Gratuitous English May–December Romance Gilligan Cut Advertised Extra Historical Hero Upgrade Actually Pretty Funny Sassy Black Woman Funny Background Event Your Head A-Splode Broken Bird '80s Hair Names to Run Away from Really Fast A.I. Is a Crapshoot Attempted Rape Moment Killer Evil Is Hammy Drowning My Sorrows Does This Remind You of Anything? 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Genre Throwback Off-into-the-Distance Ending Mighty Whitey Drugs Are Bad Chekhov's Gun Wounded Gazelle Gambit Hair-Trigger Temper Better to Die than Be Killed Spell My Name with an "S" Artistic License – Geography The Alleged Car An Axe to Grind Bloody Hilarious You Have Outlived Your Usefulness Curb-Stomp Battle Older Than They Look Parental Neglect Betty and Veronica Hero of Another Story Hollywood Darkness Manipulative Bastard Intergenerational Friendship Brutal Honesty Would Hurt a Child Only in It for the Money Russian Films No OSHA Compliance Adult Fear Historical In-Joke Artistic License – History Dark Is Not Evil Determinator aka: The Determinator Gainax Ending Dwindling Party Mundane Made Awesome Epic Fail Race Against the Clock Disney Death Breaking the Fourth Wall The Film of the Book Eureka Moment Ass Shove Everyone Has Standards Anti-Hero Scary Black Man Brother–Sister Incest Obstructive Bureaucrat Villain Protagonist Yandere "The Reason You Suck" Speech Soundtrack Dissonance The Ghost Demonic Possession Serious Business Pragmatic Adaptation Red Oni, Blue Oni My God, What Have I Done? Jerkass Last-Name Basis Suspiciously Similar Substitute Film Series Face–Heel Turn Beware the Nice Ones Homage Foreshadowing The Dog Bites Back Mooks Combat Pragmatist Creative Closing Credits What the Hell, Hero? Romantic Comedy German Films Asshole Victim Unreliable Narrator Serial Killer Took a Level in Badass Fate Worse than Death Costume Porn Coming-of-Age Story Be Careful What You Wish For Retired Badass "Well Done, Son!" Guy Politically Incorrect Villain Imagine Spot Black Dude Dies First The Voiceless From Nobody to Nightmare Dirty Cop Training Montage Gold Digger The Stinger Reality Is Unrealistic Only Known by Their Nickname Heel Realization Reckless Gun Usage Cowboy Cop Trailers Always Spoil Face Death with Dignity For Want of a Nail Disappeared Dad Dumb Blonde Stealth Hi/Bye Despair Event Horizon Pre-Mortem One-Liner Jump Scare Instant Death Bullet After the End A Father to His Men Artistic License – Physics Slap-Slap-Kiss Even Evil Has Standards Italian Films Twist Ending Antagonist Title Narrator Vomit Indiscretion Shot Stepford Smiler Girl-on-Girl Is Hot Imperial Stormtrooper Marksmanship Academy Re-Cut Adorkable Wretched Hive Ascended Extra Villainous Breakdown Dramatic Gun Cock The Lancer Properly Paranoid The Great Depression Becoming the Mask