Tropescilloscope: Evil Plan

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

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