Tropescilloscope: Evil Is Hammy

Villain persona includes acting like a Large Ham and/or more so than heroes. (read more at tvtropes.org)

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