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