Tropescilloscope: Evil vs. Evil

Two or more villains fight each other. (read more at tvtropes.org)

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