Tropescilloscope: Affably Evil

A villain who's genuinely polite and friendly. (read more at tvtropes.org)

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