Tropescilloscope: Evil Plan

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

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