Tropescilloscope: Villain Ball

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

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