Tropescilloscope: All Girls Want Bad Boys

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

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