Tropescilloscope: Greater-Scope Villain

An evil that is greater than the Big Bad in some way, but is not directly causing the conflict of the story. (read more at tvtropes.org)

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