Tropescilloscope: Sealed Evil in a Can

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

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