Tropescilloscope: All Girls Want Bad Boys

A woman is attracted to a man because he's 'bad'. (read more at tvtropes.org)

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