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