Tropescilloscope: Villain Ball

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

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