Tropescilloscope: The Bad Guy Wins

"Good always triumphs" has exceptions. (read more at tvtropes.org)

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