Tropescilloscope: Evil Counterpart

A character who has similarities to a good or not as evil character, but is evil(er). (read more at tvtropes.org)

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