Tropescilloscope: Pay Evil unto Evil

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

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