Tropescilloscope: Villain Ball

Villain does something stupid for the sake of being evil. (read more at tvtropes.org)

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