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