Tropescilloscope: Obviously Evil

It looks evil, and it is. (read more at tvtropes.org)

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