Tropescilloscope: Villain Ball

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

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