Tropescilloscope: Villain with Good Publicity

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

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