Tropescilloscope: Evil vs. Evil

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

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