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