Tropescilloscope: Evil Is Hammy

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

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