Tropescilloscope: The Bad Guy Wins

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

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