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