Tropescilloscope: Villain Song

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

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