Tropescilloscope: Evil Is Petty

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

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