Tropescilloscope: Evil Plan

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

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