Tropescilloscope: Wicked Cultured

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

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