Tropescilloscope: Villain Ball

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

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