Tropescilloscope: Sealed Evil in a Can

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

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