Tropescilloscope: Villain with Good Publicity

A villain who's popular with the general public. (read more at tvtropes.org)

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