Tropescilloscope: Villain Song

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

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