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)
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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
BrotherSister 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
FaceHeel 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
MayDecember 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
HeelFace 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