Tropescilloscope: The Bad Guy Wins

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

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