Tropescilloscope: Villain with Good Publicity

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

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