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