Tropescilloscope: Villain with Good Publicity

A villain who's popular with the general public. (read more at tvtropes.org)

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