Tropescilloscope: Pay Evil unto Evil

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

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