Tropescilloscope: Evil Plan

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

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