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