Tropescilloscope: For the Evulz

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

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