Tropescilloscope: Villain Song

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

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