Tropescilloscope: Pay Evil unto Evil

Doing cruel things to cruel people. (read more at tvtropes.org)

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