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