Tropescilloscope: Villain Ball

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

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