Tropescilloscope: Villain with Good Publicity

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

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