Tropescilloscope: Evil Plan

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

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