Tropescilloscope: Names to Run Away from Really Fast

Evil people have evil names. (read more at tvtropes.org)

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