Tropescilloscope: For the Evulz

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

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