Tropescilloscope: For the Evulz

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

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