Tropescilloscope: Villain Ball

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

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