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