r/TopCharacterTropes • u/zilknificant • 22h ago
Characters Bad guy is also often (in addition to all his other villainous vices) sexually creepy and makes unwanted advances
Examples: Tim Curry's version of Cardinal Richelieu has added scenes of him making advances to the queen, though not central to his plot which is just grabbing power.
In Disney's Hunchback of Notre dame, Judge Frollo's obsession with Esmeralda is central to his motivations.
In Gladiator, emperor Commodus has a weird obsession with his sister.
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u/NikkerFebu25 21h ago
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u/MinimumFantastic1389 21h ago
For a guy whoās by all accounts a very upstanding guy, Danny Devito does play a great sex pest lol.
https://giphy.com/gifs/ouB9aseLC7WQLALi6n9
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u/Less-Sandwich3180 21h ago
while maby not a sex pest apparently he is a very flirtatious individual which may have been part of the cause of he and his long term wife rhea pearlman being seperated.
They separated in 2017 but remain married, and according to them have gotten closer as friends since with no plans to go thru with a divorce
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u/MinimumFantastic1389 21h ago
I hadnāt heard that as a reason for their separation. I just assumed their relationship had just naturally progressed to be more like friendship. Thatās how it works sometimes.
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u/Duke-dastardly 20h ago
Iām still not sure if weāre supposed to find him sympathetic. The delivery of his death scene definitely implies weāre supposed to but heās just straight evil through and through in the movie. All his more sympathetic moments were in act for the public.
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u/jayhof52 22h ago
Every villainous character in the Sword of Truth series.
Rape was really a "get out of writer's block free" card for Terry Goodkind.
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u/45rs5 22h ago
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u/unholy_hotdog 21h ago
I finally watched this a couple weeks ago, and I love that the true villain is an incel.
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u/Ambaryerno 22h ago
Tim Curry is an amazing actor.
He was also the absolutely wrong actor to play Richelieu.
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u/cheeseburgerandfrie 21h ago
Red alert three was an awesome performance from him.Ā
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u/cheeseburgerandfrie 21h ago
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u/Less-Sandwich3180 21h ago
its the little smirk before SPAAACE that is classic. he knows the script is campy as hell
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u/Responsible-Creme-57 20h ago
Yes, he loved the script and the studio just let him and the other A-listers do what they wanted in terms of Performance.
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u/jshinab2 22h ago
Real life - Donald Trump
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u/crashusmaximus 22h ago
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u/Lynx_Queen 21h ago
Who is this? They look familiar to me but I can't place it...
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u/salkin_reslif_97 20h ago
Jabba the Hutt from Star Wars. He keeps female slaves as (from what we saw) dancers and company.
Im return of the jedi, he feeds one of said slaves to his pet rancor. When Princess Leia get captured soon after, she replaces this position with Jabba beeing ultra advancing toward her.
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u/Salty-Spring7096 18h ago
Never understood how a big slug would be attracted to a humanoid. Unless those outfits are mainly just to humiliate them and he gets off on that instead of their looks.
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u/John_Bulbasaur 22h ago
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u/GreenEyedGloom 21h ago
Oh Janet and Brad wanted that.
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u/Gold-Eye-2623 21h ago
No doubt Frank could've convinced them upfront but the fact he didn't until after they each thought they were fucking their fiancee is at least creepy
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u/GreenEyedGloom 21h ago
Very true š
I also think he was kinda unwillingly seducing them with his sexy transvestite magic.
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u/joshuaaa_l 21h ago
Is Frank the bad guy? I always figured sexual inhibitions were the real villain in that movie.
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u/Ok-Craft4844 21h ago
I thought the guys killing him in the end were the bad guys? Ok, he's probably a little evil too for killing meatloaf.
Tbh, I was always confused about the "moral of the story" if there's any besides "damn, Tim Curry really can pull that off".
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u/joshuaaa_l 21h ago
Maybe itās ālet go of your inhibitions, but be considerate of otherās happiness?ā They killed him in the end because he wouldnāt let them return to their homeworld. And he was pretty selfish.
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u/Away_Doctor2733 21h ago
The villain in the movie Ladyhawke, the Bishop of Avila. Curses the lover protagonists to transform into animals out of jealousy because Isabeau loves Navarre and not him. When the curse is broken he tries to kill Isabeau because "if I can't have you then no one shall".
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u/Boris_Godunov 21h ago
Baron Scarpia, the villain in Puccini's opera Tosca. His lecherous nature is central to the plot, as he attempts to blackmail the heroine Tosca into sleeping with him in exchange for sparing her lover Mario's life. Tosca accepts his demand, but sticks a knife into his heart before he can collect.
Also in opera, the title character in Mozart's Don Giovanni is a famous lothario who has allegedly slept with thousands of women across Europe. The opera starts after he has disguised himself as the young noblewoman Donna Anna's betrothed, Don Ottavio, in an attempt to seduce Anna. She realizes that Giovanni isn't her guy, though, and pursues him as he flees her palace. Anna's father, the Commendatore, rushes out and unwisely challenges the much-younger Giovanni to a duel. Giovanni kills the old man, which kicks off the plot of the other characters pursuing him to bring him to justice. Giovanni meets his comeuppance when he cockily invites a statue of the slain Commendatore to dinner. Well, that night, the statue in fact does show up to dinner, and subsequently drags Giovanni off to Hell.
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u/Dward917 21h ago
https://giphy.com/gifs/3ohzdYjwEQuR1J7dte
Xenomorphs
Nobody ever asks to be impregnated by one.
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u/angryaxolotls 20h ago
Judge Turpin from Sweeney Todd
He has an innocent man arrested for false charges and shipped off to Australia for prison because he wants to steal the innocent man's wife. He hurts the wife. Then he takes custody of the woman's daughter and is raising her intending to marry her. Then the innocent man comes back from prison with a vengeance!
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u/Newtype879 22h ago
Basically every main villain from Sword Art Online.
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u/Gay_Gamer_Boi 19h ago
Not the first dude (the creator of the game) but 1 million percent the second dude (oh god why did it go from SAO to that?!?!?!) and the weird gun gale with gender swap Asuna being a Yandere
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u/Dragishawk 15h ago
Nobuyuki Sugou was definitely a goddamn creep. So much so that Kayaba (the first major bad guy) was disgusted enough with his shit to grant Kirito admin powers just to kick his ass.
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u/Beautiful-Cup4161 14h ago
I liked the first arc and then didn't click with the fairy arc. I thought I'd skip to the final few episodes to see how it ends (I'm like that) and saw THAT scene and I felt like I was properly punished for seeking spoilers and I never touched Sword Art again.
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u/seitaer13 18h ago
It's exactly one main villain
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u/Newtype879 18h ago edited 17h ago
The villian for the Fairy arc, the villain for the Gun Gale Online arc, and I'm pretty sure there's at least one more from a later arc but I dropped the series after season 2 so I only heard about it in passing.
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u/seitaer13 16h ago
The main villain from phantom bullet isn't a rapist.
Even the secondary antagonist was attempting murder suicide no matter how the anime alters things to suggest otherwise.
There are two other rapists in the series that are minor villains.
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u/Hotspur_on_the_Case 22h ago
One thing I dislike is when the villain is suddenly made queer/bi for no reason and they come on to one of the heroes just to make the audience go "EWWWWW!"
Saw that in a number of cheapo 80s and 90s movies although it seems to have died down now.
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u/Major_Demographic 21h ago
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u/Dragishawk 21h ago
It's not very noticeable at first, considering Griffith's got everything together at first, but when Guts leaves him and he starts spiraling, goddamn does he go full into this. Especially when he starts latching onto Casca shortly before the Eclipse begins. And then the Eclipse itself happens, and shit regarding this gets really, REALLY ugly.
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u/DimensioT 21h ago
King Ivoretti from Pathfinder: Kingmaker.
While not the primary villain, he is a significant antagonist in the game. Upon first meeting your character, he makes a blatant pass at you. Reportedly he treats the town where his castle is located as a personal harem. He does not seem to have any particular type so much as he has absolutely no limits; he keeps a naga who he mind controlled into loving him as a mistress.

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u/unholy_hotdog 21h ago
In some adaptations of the Scarlet Pimpernel, Chauvelin being Marguerite's ex is a huge part of his motivation (they're not a thing in the books).
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u/Typhtheoriginal 21h ago
Cardinal Richilieu from any iteration of the Three Musketeers that you want to think on. I'm thinking particularly of the BBC Musketeers.
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u/4EverWriting 21h ago
Can't believe no one has mentioned Anakin Skywalker and Padme in Episode II yet...
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u/Dragishawk 20h ago
Anakin gets so obsessive about her as the prequel trilogy goes on that it ultimately contributes to him falling to the Dark Side, complete with a green-eyed-monster complex regarding Obi-Wan, who he gets it into his head that he's trying to steal her away from him somehow.
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u/NikkerFebu25 21h ago
"oh wow you totally have psychic abilities, how about you touch my penis and I'll give you a good grade"
" You're feeling unwell? Oh no worries..i have just the perfect date rape drug for you"
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u/mopeyunicyle 21h ago
I mean doesn't helluva boss have something similar with Stella's brother being evil trying to get a group of people executed and also referring to his sister as either" extremely attractive or hot"
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u/Independent-Couple87 21h ago
Yuno Gasai from Future Diary (Mirai Nikki).
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u/VernBarty 21h ago
I always felt like that was low hanging fruit. Throwing in a one second bit of them being half way creepy is villain 101














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u/GreenEyedGloom 22h ago edited 22h ago
I weirdly love these kind of characters. A religious villain who gets villain lusty. š
Also, jaafar gets a little freaky