Tropescilloscope: Evil Is Petty

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

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