Tropescilloscope: Evil vs. Evil

Two or more villains fight each other. (read more at tvtropes.org)

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