Tropescilloscope: Heel Realization

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

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