Tropescilloscope: Evil Plan

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

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