Tropescilloscope: Evil Plan

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

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