Tropescilloscope: Pay Evil unto Evil

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

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