Tropescilloscope: Sealed Evil in a Can

Villain is imprisoned somewhere. (read more at tvtropes.org)

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