Tropescilloscope: Villain Song

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

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