Tropescilloscope: Villain with Good Publicity

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

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