Tropescilloscope: Wicked Cultured

A smart and classy villain. (read more at tvtropes.org)

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