Tropescilloscope: Evil Plan

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

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