Tropescilloscope: For the Evulz

Being evil just because you can. (read more at tvtropes.org)

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