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