Tropescilloscope: Evil Is Petty

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

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