Tropescilloscope: Sealed Evil in a Can

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

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