Tropescilloscope: Villain Ball

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

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