Tropescilloscope: Sealed Evil in a Can

Villain is imprisoned somewhere. (read more at tvtropes.org)

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