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