Tropescilloscope: Sealed Evil in a Can

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

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