Tropescilloscope: Evil Is Petty

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

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