Tropescilloscope: Villain Ball

Villain does something stupid for the sake of being evil. (read more at tvtropes.org)

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