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