Tropescilloscope: Even Evil Has Loved Ones

Villains love their family and friends like anyone else. (read more at tvtropes.org)

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