Tropescilloscope: For the Evulz

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

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