Tropescilloscope: Evil vs. Evil

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

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