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