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