Tropescilloscope: Wicked Cultured

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

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