Tropescilloscope: Politically Incorrect Villain

Kicks The Dog by being racist/sexist/Fantastic Racist/etc. (read more at tvtropes.org)

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