Tropescilloscope: Nice Job Fixing It, Villain!

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