Tropescilloscope: Villain Song

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

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