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