Tropescilloscope: Villain with Good Publicity

A villain who's popular with the general public. (read more at tvtropes.org)

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