Tropescilloscope: Villain Song

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

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