Tropescilloscope: Villain Ball

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

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