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