Tropescilloscope: Villain Ball

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

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