Tropescilloscope: Heel Realization

Realizing you're a bad guy. (read more at tvtropes.org)

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