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