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