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