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