Tropescilloscope: Villain Song

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

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