Tropescilloscope: Affably Evil

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

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