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