Tropescilloscope: Obviously Evil

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

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