Tropescilloscope: Evil Plan

The villain's plan that the heroes try to stop. (read more at tvtropes.org)

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