Tropescilloscope: Evil Counterpart

A character who has similarities to a good or not as evil character, but is evil(er). (read more at tvtropes.org)

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