Tropescilloscope: Villain Song

The villain sings about himself and his evil plans. (read more at tvtropes.org)

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