Tropescilloscope: Punch-Clock Villain

Working with the villain is just a job for them; they're not inherently a bad person. (read more at tvtropes.org)

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