Tropescilloscope: Villain Ball

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

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