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