Tropescilloscope: The Bad Guy Wins

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

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