Tropescilloscope: Evil Is Petty

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

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