Tropescilloscope: Villain Song

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

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