Tropescilloscope: Evil Is Petty

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

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