Tropescilloscope: For the Evulz

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

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