Tropescilloscope: Evil vs. Evil

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

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