Tropescilloscope: Villain with Good Publicity

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

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