Tropescilloscope: For the Evulz

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

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