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