Tropescilloscope: Evil Is Petty

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

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