Tropescilloscope: Evil Is Petty

Not just a villain, but a total dick. (read more at tvtropes.org)

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