Tropescilloscope: Pay Evil unto Evil

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

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Shirtless Scene Captain Obvious Dramatic Gun Cock Action Genre Names to Run Away from Really Fast Unwitting Instigator of Doom The Musical Deus ex Machina Broken Aesop No Name Given Shell-Shocked Veteran Jitter Cam Disney Villain Death Peek-a-Boo Corpse Drugs Are Bad Abusive Parents Mugging the Monster Straight Gay Rewatch Bonus The Oner Very Loosely Based on a True Story Informed Ability Soft Glass Sanity Slippage Military and Warfare Films Death Seeker "Where Are They Now?" Epilogue Extremely Short Timespan Does This Remind You of Anything? The Lost Lenore Those Two Guys Manipulative Bastard Attempted Rape Evil Laugh Wrong Genre Savvy Maybe Ever After Papa Wolf You Killed My Father Large Ham Creepy Child Screw the Rules, I Have Money! 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Is a Crapshoot Mr. Exposition Break the Haughty Pay Evil unto Evil Film Series Facial Horror Bilingual Bonus Anguished Declaration of Love Brother–Sister Incest Mooks Chase Scene Disney Death In Medias Res Drowning My Sorrows Eiffel Tower Effect Arc Words Interrupted Suicide Impaled with Extreme Prejudice The Reveal Chekhov's Gunman Star-Crossed Lovers Action Prologue Parental Incest Too Dumb to Live Would Hit a Girl Vomit Indiscretion Shot Bunny-Ears Lawyer Danny Peary Cult Movies List Exact Words Put on a Bus The Great Depression Amusing Injuries Age Lift The Hero Dies Stepford Smiler Karma Houdini Demoted to Extra Driven to Suicide All Girls Want Bad Boys Plot Hole Neck Snap Broken Bird Australian Movies Grievous Bottley Harm Artistic License – Biology Storming the Castle Cool Guns Rape as Drama For Want of a Nail You Have Outlived Your Usefulness The Stoner Call-Back Body Horror Bury Your Gays Vacation Films Married to the Job Rich Bitch Dropped a Bridge on Him Horror Comedy Adaptation Dye-Job Toplessness from the Back Crapsack World Arch-Enemy Hoist by His Own Petard Anachronic Order Foreshadowing A Date with Rosie Palms As You Know Real Life Dramedy Scenery Gorn Exactly What It Says on the Tin Rule of Cool The '90s Badass Normal Big Bad Duumvirate Ooh, Me Accent's Slipping Badass in a Nice Suit Villain Opening Scene Word of God All Just a Dream Unresolved Sexual Tension Rousing Speech Eye Scream Dramatic Irony Wham Shot Only One Name Revenge Even Bad Men Love Their Mamas Redshirt Army Index of Film Westerns Cruel and Unusual Death Almost Kiss Evil Brit Wounded Gazelle Gambit Eureka Moment Left the Background Music On Villain Song Double-Meaning Title Determinator aka: The Determinator Eagleland Rule of Three Not What It Looks Like Hypocritical Humor Oh, Crap! Ironic Echo Skewed Priorities The Casanova Accidental Misnaming Dissonant Serenity Wicked Cultured Sadistic Choice Once More, with Clarity! 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Wretched Hive Ambiguous Disorder Insistent Terminology Hollywood Darkness Parental Substitute Only a Flesh Wound Big Eater Deal with the Devil Nice Job Fixing It, Villain! Properly Paranoid Black Best Friend Beware the Nice Ones No-Sell Music Stories Face Death with Dignity Anti-Hero Flipping the Bird From Nobody to Nightmare Throwing Your Sword Always Works Evil Sounds Deep Disguised in Drag Stylistic Suck Cat Scare O.O.C. Is Serious Business Artistic License – Gun Safety Anti-Villain Green-Eyed Monster Victoria's Secret Compartment Adaptation Distillation Cain and Abel Deliberately Monochrome Brainless Beauty Malevolent Masked Men Man on Fire It's Personal Science Fiction Films Awesome, but Impractical Corrupt Corporate Executive Gone Horribly Right Leaning on the Fourth Wall The End... Or Is It? Karmic Death Undying Loyalty Pragmatic Adaptation Adaptational Villainy Evil Counterpart Framing Device '80s Hair Death by Irony Improbable Weapon User Monumental Damage Bait-and-Switch Mad Scientist Important Haircut Training Montage Evil Plan Sci-Fi Horror Big-Bad Ensemble The X of Y The Un-Favourite aka: The Un Favorite Those Wacky Nazis Foregone Conclusion Retired Badass Despair Event Horizon Ripped from the Headlines The Film of the Book Romantic False Lead Everyone Calls Him "Barkeep" Psychological Thriller Laser-Guided Karma Toilet Humour aka: Toilet Humor Light Is Not Good Camera Abuse Cool Car Sealed Evil in a Can Screw This, I'm Outta Here! Reckless Gun Usage Casting Gag Mighty Whitey Stealth Hi/Bye Bald of Evil Character Development Catch-Phrase Bavarian Fire Drill Never My Fault Token Minority Adaptational Attractiveness Random Events Plot Ragtag Bunch of Misfits Epic Movie Wham Line Villain Protagonist Hate Sink Closed Circle Only Known by Their Nickname Precision F-Strike Affectionate Parody Creator Cameo Fiery Redhead He Knows Too Much Recap / RiffTrax aka: Riff Trax Movies My God, What Have I Done? Parental Neglect The Cameo Dogged Nice Guy All There in the Script Alpha Bitch Red Right Hand Air-Vent Passageway Brick Joke Crouching Moron, Hidden Badass Only in It for the Money Have a Gay Old Time Defiant to the End Femme Fatale Video Credits Imagine Spot Cool Shades Aside Glance The Smurfette Principle Reality Is Unrealistic Blood from the Mouth Does Not Like Shoes Punny Name Ghost Fiction Dressing as the Enemy Red Shirt Curse Cut Short The Voiceless Fire-Forged Friends Bloodless Carnage The Faceless Badass Bookworm Meaningful Name Gold Digger Ominous Latin Chanting Film Noir Well-Intentioned Extremist Girl-on-Girl Is Hot Catapult Nightmare Spiteful Spit Sir Swears-a-Lot Blonde, Brunette, Redhead Expository Hairstyle Change Heel Realization Freeze-Frame Bonus Canon Foreigner Kick the Dog Reasonable Authority Figure Camp Gay Bad Boss Fingore Historical-Domain Character Never Found the Body Defrosting Ice Queen Truth in Television Screw the Money, I Have Rules! Funny Foreigner Boom, Headshot! Major Injury Underreaction Punctuated! For! Emphasis! Batman Gambit It Will Never Catch On Here We Go Again! Armor-Piercing Question Sinister Minister Overprotective Dad Christmas Movies Index Contrived Coincidence Dumb Blonde Colour-Coded for Your Convenience aka: Color Coded For Your Convenience Naïve Newcomer Tranquil Fury Badass Grandpa Adult Fear Evil-Detecting Dog Babies Ever After MacGuffin Aluminum Christmas Trees Chewing the Scenery Stealth Pun Psycho for Hire 20 Minutes into the Future Improvised Weapon The Starscream Intergenerational Friendship Cluster F-Bomb Aww, Look! They Really Do Love Each Other Dies Wide Open Actually Pretty Funny Hero of Another Story Continuity Nod Unspoken Plan Guarantee Needs Wiki Magic Love Insane Troll Logic Stuff Blowing Up Alas, Poor Villain Cowboy Cop Improbable Infant Survival aka: Infant Immortality Mistaken for Gay Fate Worse than Death It's All About Me Credits Gag Naked People Are Funny Sassy Black Woman Ambiguous Ending Hair of Gold, Heart of Gold Posthumous Character Alliterative Name Early-Bird Cameo Mundane Made Awesome Darker and Edgier Plucky Comic Relief Jump Scare Distracted by the Sexy Roaring Rampage of Revenge Never Trust a Trailer Not Even Bothering with the Accent Deliberate Values Dissonance Morality Pet One-Word Title Market-Based Title Dirty Coward Nice Guy Show Within a Show Suddenly SHOUTING! Evil Cannot Comprehend Good The Load Jerkass Has a Point Big "NO!" Ax-Crazy Bond One-Liner Motor Mouth Bare Your Midriff Kids Are Cruel Disappeared Dad The Place Small Name, Big Ego Historical In-Joke Taking You with Me Destination Defenestration Noodle Incident Artistic License – Military For the Evulz Parental Abandonment You Have Got to Be Kidding Me! "Well Done, Son!" Guy Offscreen Teleportation Fatal Family Photo Why Did It Have to Be Snakes? Love at First Sight Big Applesauce Cat Fight Kick the Son of a Bitch Irony Blatant Lies Totally Radical Trailers Always Spoil Rule of Funny Crazy-Prepared Last-Name Basis What You Are in the Dark The '80s Works Set in World War II Setting Update Conspicuous CG Our Zombies Are Different Scare Chord Your Head A-Splode Dirty Old Man Dark Action Girl Up to Eleven Establishing Character Moment Missing Mom Romantic Comedy N-Word Privileges Soundtrack Dissonance Horror Doesn't Settle for Simple Tuesday "Awesome McCool" Name Getting Crap Past the Radar Gorn Taking the Bullet Hong Kong Films Yandere Bland-Name Product Apocalypse How How We Got Here Gratuitous English Adaptational Badass Disproportionate Retribution Deconstruction The Ace Red Eyes, Take Warning Better to Die than Be Killed Mercy Kill Genre Throwback Diabolus ex Machina Fan Disservice Superhero Zombie Stories Instant Death Bullet From Bad to Worse Gory Discretion Shot Nice Hat Break the Cutie Mystery and Detective Films Beauty Is Never Tarnished Not Quite Dead Super Strength B-Movie Card-Carrying Villain The '50s Advertised Extra Depraved Bisexual Grey and Gray Morality Adults Are Useless Tempting Fate timeperiod Loophole Abuse Death by Adaptation Eyepatch of Power Cool Old Guy Sports Stories She Cleans Up Nicely Big Damn Heroes Gilligan Cut Rule of Symbolism Greater-Scope Villain Based on a True Story Arson, Murder, and Jaywalking Rape Is a Special Kind of Evil Television Movie Index Love Triangle Made of Explodium Drives Like Crazy Bloody Hilarious Dirty Cop Adaptation Expansion Manly Tears An Arm and a Leg True Companions Rated M for Manly Refuge in Audacity Calling the Old Man Out Offscreen Moment of Awesome Animated Credits Opening Our Vampires Are Different No OSHA Compliance Japanese Films Older Than They Look Faux Affably Evil Jack Bauer Interrogation Technique Badass Longcoat Adaptational Heroism Running Gag Take a Third Option Stalker with a Crush Film Noir Index Homage Off with His Head! Made of Iron Every Car Is a Pinto Freudian Excuse Mind Screw The Ghost Breaking the Fourth Wall Silent Movie Downer Ending Genre Savvy The Bully Asshole Victim Jerk with a Heart of Gold Implacable Man Failed a Spot Check Mood Whiplash Crucified Hero Shot Time Skip Red Oni, Blue Oni Combat Pragmatist Fantastic Racism Unreliable Narrator Heterosexual Life-Partners Abhorrent Admirer Pet the Dog Adorkable The Remake The Atoner Spiritual Successor Fun with Acronyms Even Evil Has Loved Ones Department of Redundancy Department Daddy's Girl Serial Killer Unusually Uninteresting Sight Author Appeal Lighter and Softer Bitch in Sheep's Clothing Extreme Doormat Took a Level in Jerkass Pun aka: Incredibly Lame Pun Bring My Brown Pants Hidden Depths An Axe to Grind Retirony What the Hell, Hero? Sacrificial Lion British Films The Mole The Chessmaster Take That! Sir Not-Appearing-in-This-Trailer Roger Ebert: Great Movies List Meaningful Echo Nothing Is Scarier Cassandra Truth Kill It with Fire Corpsing No-Holds-Barred Beatdown Henpecked Husband Heroes Want Redheads The Un-Reveal Action Survivor Badass Boast I'm a Humanitarian Damsel in Distress A God Am I The Bad Guy Wins The Ditz Ascended Extra Evil vs. Evil Pimped-Out Dress Foil Domestic Abuse Blood Knight Due to the Dead Mr. Fanservice The Hero No Ending Obstructive Bureaucrat Shoot the Shaggy Dog Russian Films Hair-Trigger Temper Earn Your Happy Ending Pragmatic Villainy Becoming the Mask Belligerent Sexual Tension German Films The Brute Maybe Magic, Maybe Mundane