Tropescilloscope: Villain Song

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

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