Tropescilloscope: Nice Job Fixing It, Villain!

Villain makes things better and accidentally helps everyone. (read more at tvtropes.org)

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