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