Tropescilloscope: All Girls Want Bad Boys

A woman is attracted to a man because he's 'bad'. (read more at tvtropes.org)

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