Tropescilloscope: Villain Song

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

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