Tropescilloscope: Evil vs. Evil

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

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