Tropescilloscope: Evil Plan

The villain's plan that the heroes try to stop. (read more at tvtropes.org)

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