History WesternAnimation / TheBadGuys2022

** Diane is Los Angeles's Governor and the BigGood of the film, thus the HeroAntagonist to the Bad Guys at the start of the film. [[spoiler:She is also the Crimson Paw, a far more concise and professional criminal who retired without ever getting caught.]] As a result she dismisses the Bad Guys as sloppy {{Big Bad Wannabe}}s, and tries to provoke them into a heist during the Good Samaritan Awards to lure them into a trap, never once thinking they'd be competent enough to actually do it and nearly losing the Golden Dolphin (and her political reputation) as a result. [[spoiler:Her confidence no other criminal can outgambit her comes into play again later on when she is made an UnwittingPawn to Marmalade, and is later caught and exposed as the Crimson Paw by him due to her cocky handling of the Zumpango Diamond, requiring the Bad Guys' help and pure fate to prevent her getting caught out. It is downplayed however, by the fact that Diane is also one of the most self observant characters in the film, able to realise her mistakes quickly enough, and later uses her better judgement between Wolf and Marmalade.]]

** Diane is Sunnyside's Governor the BigGood of the film, thus the HeroAntagonist to the Bad Guys at the start of the film. [[spoiler:She is also the Crimson Paw, a far more concise and professional criminal who retired without ever getting caught.]] As a result she dismisses the Bad Guys as sloppy {{Big Bad Wannabe}}s, and tries to provoke them into a heist during the Good Samaritan Awards to lure them into a trap, never once thinking they'd be competent enough to actually do it and nearly losing the Golden Dolphin (and her political reputation) as a result. [[spoiler:Her confidence no other criminal can outgambit her comes into play again later on when she is made an UnwittingPawn to Marmalade, and is later caught and exposed as the Crimson Paw by him due to her cocky handling of the Zumpango Diamond, requiring the Bad Guys' help and pure fate to prevent her getting caught out. It is downplayed however, by the fact that Diane is also one of the most self observant characters in the film, able to realise her mistakes quickly enough, and later uses her better judgement between Wolf and Marmalade.]]

* Hackette: Webs, a female spider who’s the hacker of the eponymous group.

* ThePasswordIsAlwaysSwordfish: While preparing for a heist to steal the Golden Dolphin award at the gala, Wolf mentions that the Police Chief has a randomized password for the glass case that holds the Dolphin in a suitcase. When Snake goes to retrieve it, the Police Chief closes the case and unintentionally attacks his tail, forcing Piranha to instigate a dance number to prevent Snake from getting caught. When Snake gets the password, it turns out to be... "12345", much to his ire.

* ThePasswordIsAlwaysSwordfish: During prep for a heist to steal the Golden Dolphin award at the gala, Wolf mentions that a password for the glass case that holds the Dolphin is randomized and that one of the security guards has it. When Snake went to retrieve it, the Police Chief whose holding the suitcase it's in closes the case and unintentionally [[AttackTheTail attacks his tail]], forcing Piranha to instigate a dance number to prevent Snake from getting caught. When Snake finally gets the password, it turns out to be... "12345", much to his ire.

** Additionally, Mr. Shark, Mr. Piranha, and Webs are made more anthropomorphic, whereas the book series had them closer to animals.

* PragmaticAdaptation: While the movie's tone is overall more serious and grounded than the book series (while still being a comedy involving anthropomorphic animals), the film nevertheless adapts cetain events of the first four books fairly faithfully into its own tone and style, with several scenes from the books recreated almost precision. Some elements from episodes 5,6,9, and 11 were minorly in the movie. For example, Piranha's singing at the second gala was from book 11 when the small fish had a singing career and a music label after Shadow G defeated all the villains off-panel. Additionally, Mr. Shark, Mr. Piranha, and Webs are made more anthropomorphic, whereas the book series had them closer to animals.

* CastingGag: In the Japanese dub, Creator/YukoKaida (Diane Foxington) had already voiced a [[spoiler: red-haired thief [[Anime/QueensBlade before]]]]. Likewise, and from the same dub, Creator/KappeiYamaguchi (Dr. Marmalade) has previous experience voicing [[spoiler:[[Anime/CyberTeamInAkihabara a villain hiding his true colors under a more kind faҫade]]]].

* CastingGag: In the Japanese dub, Creator/YukoKaida (Diane Foxington) had already voiced a [[spoiler: red-haired thief [[Anime/QueensBlade before]]]]. Likewise, and from the same dub, Creator/KappeiYamaguchi (Dr. Marmalade) has previous experience voicing [[spoiler:[[Anime/CyberTeamInAkihabara a villain hiding his true colors under a more kind faҫade]]]]

* CastingGag: In the Japanese dub, Creator/YukoKaida (Diane Foxington) had already voiced a [[spoiler:thief [[Anime/QueensBlade before]]]].

Rounding out the cast are Creator/ZazieBeetz, Creator/AlexBorstein, [[WebVideo/IISuperwomanII Lilly Singh]], and Creator/RichardAyoade. The film released on April 22nd, 2022 in the US, distributed by Creator/UniversalPictures. A holiday special, ''WesternAnimation/TheBadGuysAVeryBadHoliday'', is set for release on Creator/{{Netflix}} in 2023.

* AdaptationalMundanity: The film covers several different parts of the book series, though while the latter was a FantasyKitchenSink of heroic adventure tropes, the film is a (relatively) simple heist/secret agent spoof. In particular, [[spoiler: Marmalade is merely a rich criminal instead an alien conquerer, Diane is city governor instead of TheChosenOne of a band of crime fighters, and the main gang do ''not'' engage in the likes of time travel or gaining super powers. (Not ''yet'' anyway.)]]

* AlwaysSomeoneBetter: The Crimson Paw, a master thief who was never caught, [[spoiler: is later revealed to be Governor Diane Foxington, who calls out the Bad Guys on live TV for their showboating and petty theft. Mr. Wolf later learns firsthand how Diane earned her Crimson Paw reputation after she breaks him and his friends out of prison and he visits her hideout]].

* BlatantLies: [[spoiler: When Marmalade is (rather [[LaserGuidedKarma rightfully]]) mistaken for the Crimson Paw, he's arrested for her crimes. In response to all this, he tries to call out Diane as the true Crimson Paw, all the while calling himself "[[InsistentTerminology the flower of goodness]]". Aside from the fact Marmalade is ''[[TheSociopath anything]]'' ''[[BitchInSheepsClothing but]]'', the whole world just witnessed that he was party to keeping the stolen meteorite in his compound ''and'' using it to steal charity money. There's no point keeping up the "pwecious widdle good Samaritan" act any longer, but he still has the gall to lie through his teeth that he's the height of goodness.]]

* BreadEggsBreadedEggs: As the Bad Guys [[spoiler: (sans Mr. Wolf) are combing their empty lair for any remainders of their loot, Mr. Shark gives a dramatic example of this trope before bursting into tears:]]
--> '''Mr. Shark:''' [[spoiler: We got no food! We got no money! We got no money to buy food! We got no food to sell for money!]]

* CaughtByArrogance: [[spoiler: Marmalade is caught by a long calvalcade of this trope. First he privately gloats to the Bad Guys after framing them, making them aware of his real intentions. Then during a news interview he breaks character to talk about "their" scheme to steal the meteorite, unable to resist bragging about how he pulled it off, instantly making Diane suspicious in turn. While he did take precautions against them retaliating, the combined {{Villain Ball}}s of falling for Snake's FakeDefector plan, not bothering to keep an eye on Wolf and Diane while they were placed in a DeathTrap and stealing said Zumpango Diamond from Diane, all play a role in his heist being destroyed, his plan being publicly exposed, and to worsen it, him getting framed and arrested for the Crimson Paw's crimes as well.]]

** The raid on the guinea pig testing lab. Ostensibly done to free the lab animals, it turns [[spoiler: two hundred thousand guinea pigs loose on the streets, free to do Marmalade's bidding.]]

* ColonyDrop: DownplayedTrope. A meteorite struck Los Angeles a year before the film takes place and left a large crater in the middle of the freeway. However, the heart-shaped meteorite recovered from the crater is plot-significant [[spoiler: as the power source for Marmalade's mind-control device]].

** The Bad Guys and have a mass of combined talents that are mostly used for petty theft. Even besides that they have several HiddenDepths like musical talents. [[spoiler: The plot of the movie in fact involves them actually pulling a HeelFaceTurn and weaponising their abilities to stop Marmalade to demonstrate this potential.]]
** Played with for [[spoiler: Diane, who similarly is a hyper competent ninja and tech genius who limited her profession to a cat burgular. She had already Heel Face Turned a while before to become governor, but the profession mostly used her unrelated political and social skills. The one time she tried to use her savviness to stop a criminal, it failed due to underestimating them. She does later reprise her old role as the Crimson Paw however, with her old thieving skills and Batman-esque gadgetry proving to make her an effective action heroine.]]

** It's also reciprocated. At first, Wolf's main reason to steal the Golden Dolphin is to humiliate her in retaliation for insulting him and his team. After she starts defrosting and supporting him, he starts warming up to her, [[spoiler: to the point that he gives up on the plan and tells her where the gang's hideout and loot is, because the idea of betraying her trust is now unbearable to him.]]

* EverybodyCries: During the climax, [[spoiler: the gang tries to save Mr. Snake from falling to his death. However, they end up falling with him and have a heartfelt reunion. Mr. Shark, Mr. Piranha, and Webs burst into tears, while Snake gets teary-eyed. Mr. Wolf, the only one who isn't crying, confidently produces the grappling hook gun that saves their lives.]]

** Justified for the Bad Guys. They are so used to committing crimes due to the prejudice against them that the ''very concept'' of doing a good deed, just because, is foreign to them. They pretend to be do-gooders at first, [[spoiler: but it slowly becomes more legitimate during their second attempt to steal the Golden Dolphin.]]

** As Wolf says it, "We may be bad, but we're ''so good'' at it!" Although, it's revealed that they're criminals less because they want to be, and more because society's prejudice against them [[ThenLetMeBeEvil made them feel like they had no other choice.]] [[spoiler: Ultimately subverted when Wolf realizes [[GoodFeelsGood being good feels even better]] and decides to reform for real. The others follow suit fairly quickly.]]

* FalselyReformedVillain: Wolf sells the gang on going good by explaining they'll go along with the reform program to get themselves in the position to complete their heist of the Golden Dolphin. [[spoiler: [[HeelFaceTurn Wolf eventually ditches the "falsely" part. The rest of the gang takes more time, but eventually does too.]] ]]

* {{Fauxshadowing}}: [[spoiler: Snake's compulsive love of eating guinea pigs, discussed in the opening's SeinfeldianConversation, is just leading up to the lab heist being bungled and has no later role in Marmalade's defeat. Not even after Snake joins him as a FakeDefector does this come into play, with only a brief mention of it by Wolf, though it could be argued that while this [[WhyDontYouJustShootHim would have been significantly easier]] than Snake's actual plan, Marmalade being EvilAllAlong was not known to the public and as such, Snake eating Marmalade on the spot would have only resulted in him being implicated for the murder of a famous philanthropist, exactly the opposite of what he intended]].

** Both Wolf and Diane alternately foil Marmalade the same way. [[spoiler: All three are cunning, manipulative and fairly egotistical criminal operatives that use a good guy persona to hide their villainous actions. However while Diane's turn to good is genuine (and Wolf's ''eventually'' is), Marmalade is a VillainWithGoodPublicity that does not believe any of his own goodness spiel. Even as villains, Wolf and Diane were {{Noble Demons}} with restraint in their crimes, while Marmalade is TheUnfettered who will betray and murder to get what he wants. Both Wolf and Diane humble and bond through the circumstances of the movie, converting their ManipulativeBastard skills into MagneticHero ones, and both stepping in when the other's KarmaHoudiniWarranty finally kicks in, while Marmalade remains a SmugSnake to the end, with his selfish ego leaving him with no one left to back him up when things go wrong (not even Cuddles).]]

** Additionally, despite this and even knowing they are there, they manage to outsmart her and nearly get away with Golden Dolphin due to her complacency. [[spoiler: This, alongside her [[TemptingFate non-stop bragging]] upon TheReveal she is the Crimson Paw, foreshadows Diane's overconfidence will come back to bite her against Marmalade]].

** [[spoiler: The old lady's purse at the award ceremony is ''full'' of easily-stolen items seemingly meant to lure Wolf into noticing her.]]

* GoneHorriblyRight: [[spoiler: Marmalade manipulates the Bad Guys into a HeelFaceTurn with the assumption that VirtueIsWeakness and will make them easier to manipulate, including finding a way to turn their caper skills towards a zeal for good. This ends up biting him in the rump in a big way, as this gives the Bad Guys both the skill and motivation needed [[ALessonLearnedTooWell to band together and foil his evil plot]]. On top of this, he also uses Diane to enable the scheme, leaving the Crimson Paw with a reason to come out of retirement and help the Bad Guys take him down]].

** [[spoiler: Marmalade uses this to his advantage when he steals the Love Crater Meteorite and frames the Bad Guys for it. After all, as he puts it, who are people going to believe is more capable of such a crime -- five scary and threatening predators with a long criminal history, or an adorable, famously philanthropic guinea pig?]]

* GoodFeelsGood: When Mr. Wolf saves an old lady from falling down the stairs instead of stealing her purse like planned, her calling him a "good boy" makes him unconsciously wag his tail, feel a shiver in his entire body, and start to question his motives. The sensation is referred to repeatedly as a "tingle", and is used as a motivator tool by Marmalade. [[spoiler: When the rest of the gang feels it for the first time, they realize that Wolf was right and they ''can'' be more than hated pariahs, that they ''can'' change, and that they ''want'' to, sealing their HeelFaceTurn.]]

* HardTruthAesop: Being famous, popular and loved by the public is tenuous at times, and people can easily turn on you if they perceive you've done something wrong. [[spoiler: This is driven home when Snake points out in prison that despite Wolf's claims that people were starting to "love" them, the public were quick to fall back on their presumption that the Bad Guys stole the meteorite, proving their love was artificial.]] Actual redemption and ''earning'' trust is in turn often a very difficult ongoing task and often involves accepting big sacrifices and consequences, [[spoiler:the Bad Guys are vindicated in the end but still go to jail for all their crimes to show their redemption is genuine]]. Even then, [[spoiler:as shown with Wolf and Diane's lingering StickyFingers]], ditching old habits and flaws won't always happen overnight.
* HatesTheJobLovesTheLimelight: A non-show business example. [[spoiler: Wolf and Diane resent being treated as scary villains in the past and ultimately repent, but are still ''very'' prideful of their VillainCred from being competent at it. On the opposite end, Marmalade has no passion for good deeds and gets his "tingle" from being a SuperVillain, but still accepts being nothing lower than equal to Mother Teresa in his accomplishments as a philanthropist.]]
* TheHeart: Though she's the team's only female member, Ms. Tarantula averts this, as she's unconcerned with keeping the group together and not especially emotionally intelligent. Mr. Shark is actually closer to filling this role, as the sensitive sweetheart of the group. [[spoiler: Curiously both Webs and Shark ''do'' get a moment of this trope during the group's GoodFeelsGood epiphany, as they are both the first to put it together and spell it out to Snake, causing all of them to get the "tingle" and HeelFaceTurn.]]

* IgnoredEpiphany: [[spoiler: When the rest of the gang reaches redemption, Mr. Snake refuses to and storms off, even though he feels himself [[GoodFeelsGood tingling]]. He even seems to double down by joining Marmalade, at least until the latter betrays him. Ultimately, though, the trope is [[SubvertedTrope subverted]], as Snake reveals in the end that he felt the tingle again shortly after leaving the others, and decided [[FakeDefector to use the argument as cover to sabotage Marmalade's scheme from within]]]].

* ItMeantSomethingToMe: [[spoiler: A non-romantic example, when the Bad Guys pull off their FalselyReformedVillain scheme, Wolf ends up BecomingTheMask and turning good for real. The problem is that none of the his comrades, or even their rehabiliator feel the same way, and were only in it to dupe everyone while they pulled a heist, and his attempts to convince them it's the direction to take [[EvilCannotComprehendGood only confuse them]] (and infuriate Snake). Ironically the only other person who ''did'' support the change for real was Diane, his ImpliedLoveInterest.]]

* KarmaHoudiniWarranty: [[spoiler: Marmalade suffers this twofold in the finale. His heist involving the meteorite and mind-controlled guinea pigs is foiled, but he could and by implication would try again by safeguarding the meteorite back home. Mr. Snake reveals that he switched the meteorite with the imitation lamp, overloading the real one to destroy it and Marmalade's compound, revealing the professor as the real thief and clearing the crew’s names. Then, when the Zumpango diamond falls out of his pocket -- the same diamond he took off Diane earlier and discovered she's the Crimson Paw -- Chief Luggins recognizes it and all of Diane's crimes are pinned on Marmalade instead.]]

** The scene where [[spoiler: Diane breaks The Bad Guys out of jail, as the Crimson Paw, by beating up the guards]] is similar on how her book counterpart was introduced in book 3. The only difference was that her book counterpart [[spoiler:(Ellen)]] was [[spoiler: an agent disguised as a ninja and the guards she fought off worked for Marmalade and not for the prison.]]

* NiceJobBreakingItRivals: Diane taunting the Bad Guys on live TV ends up setting off ''the entire plot''. The mockery leaves the Bad Guys seething and Wolf plotting to get revenge on Diane by stealing the Golden Dolphin during the Good Samaritan Awards. Not only does the heist end with them both publically humiliating themselves at the ceremony, but [[spoiler: Marmalade uses the vendetta to sow the seeds of his own heist and induct the Bad Guys as patsies for his FakeReformedVillain scheme. The end result leaves the Bad Guys getting framed for his crimes, Diane's secret identity as the Crimson Paw in jeopardy, and both her and Wolf nearly murdered by Marmalade. The only reason this is all negated is because the two have put their rivalry to an end by the time he put his plan into action.]]
* NiceMeanAndInbetween: [[spoiler: Throughout the film, Wolf, Diane and Marmalade are the three main instigators, all being lead criminal operatives and manipulators that move the cogs of the main plot through their ventures into good. Diane, being a ReformedCriminal who sincerely wants to atone and whose actions are motivated by stopping other criminal or evil activities (though not without [[ReformedButNotTamed her own occasional dips into arrogant or dubious behaviour]]), is Nice. Marmalade, who is an unfettered VillainWithGoodPublicity who only pretends to be good to cover up his own evil schemes, is Mean. While Wolf, who starts off a cocky LovableRogue who fakes reforming for his own criminal scheme, only to genuinely have a change of heart, is Inbetween.]]

** Wolf establishes himself as ''incredibly'' assured of the gang's superiority as a criminal gang. However Diane mocks the Bad Guys on live TV, his attempt to steal the Golden Dolphin as payback ends with them getting caught, and his attempt to improvise out of it by manipulating Marmalade ends up with [[spoiler: the gang being ''his'' patsy instead.]]
** [[spoiler: After Diane {{Pretender Diss}}es the Bad Guys on live TV and through "Mr Poodleton", they ruin the Good Samaritan award by actually getting past all her security precautions. Her lengthy bragging about being "the best bad guy the world has ever seen" after TheReveal she is the Crimson Paw is also predictably followed by her being outdone by [[AlwaysABiggerFish Marmalade]], her secret identity getting easily deduced by him, and needing the Bad Guys to save her.]]
** [[spoiler: Marmalade succeeds in both his frame-up scheme and stopping Wolf and Diane intervening, complete with excess EvilGloating in both cases. Naturally giving away his plan also leaves the Bad Guys and Diane onto him, his heist getting sabotaged, and getting beaten at his own game of manipulation by Snake. And as the final touch, his form of mockery towards Diane (stealing her diamond) backfires magnificently when it gets him framed as the Crimson Paw and thrown in jail.]]

* RedemptionQuest: Pretty much the entire plot of the movie. The gang members start off as criminals, and the movie chronicles Mr. Wolf exploiting this to buy them another attempt at stealing the Golden Dolphin. He is slowly inspired into doing this for real [[spoiler: and his friends slowly follow suit]]. Mr. Wolf even directly says the phrase "redemption arcs" out loud in reference to the gang's HeelFaceTurn after [[spoiler: Marmalade's schemes]] are revealed.

** [[spoiler: Diane Foxington is revealed to be the elusive Crimson Paw when she helps the Bad Guys clear their name. She reveals that she came the closest to stealing the Golden Dolphin out of anyone, but realized she could do some good instead of sticking to stereotypes. She implies she still uses her skills for good despite being a governor.]]
** [[spoiler: When Diane breaks the gang out of prison, she wonders if she's become rusty. She smugly states after they're free that she's still got it.]]

** The Bad Guys' RedemptionQuest starting in the first place was done for no sincere reason to begin with. The Bad Guys are just using the plan to continue their theiving ways unnoticed, [[spoiler: Marmalade is just using them all in a dupe for his own evil scheme]]. However, when Wolf and Diane start to bond, they become legitimately enlightened by the change, triggering the events that show the Bad Guys ''do'' have potential to turn to good.

* TheSixthRanger: [[spoiler: Diane. Like her book counterpart, she is a ReformedCriminal than eventually teams up with the Bad Guys following their HeelFaceTurn, however while in the former she had her own group that merged with them, here she seems to get adopted into the Bad Guys' main unit after befriending Wolf.]]
* TheSmurfettePrinciple: As revealed in the first synopsis of the movie, thanks to Mr. Tarantula [[GenderFlip being turned into a girl for the movie]], she is the only girl on the team [[spoiler: until [[TwoGirlsToATeam Diane]] teams up with them.]]

** Diane is such to the first stage of [[spoiler: Marmalade's plan, framing the Bad Guys for stealing the Meteorite in their FalselyReformedVillain scheme. The plan rode on the Bad Guys not having really turned good and being unsympathetic enough that no one would believe them. Diane however ended up Wolf's PositiveFriendInfluence, setting off a genuine HeelFaceTurn and leaving Diane suspicious of the frame up, leading to her breaking them out of jail.]]
** Wolf ends up such for [[spoiler: the actual charity heist itself. When Diane tries to stop Marmalade, he proves her first tasking adversary due to the complexity of his plan and being competent enough to capture her and Wolf. However Wolf's actions following his HeelFaceTurn chained off the events that not only gave away Marmalade's exact targets, but caused all the other Bad Guys to also HeelFaceTurn, leading them to rescue him and Diane and help save the stolen money, and Snake to ruin Marmalade's scheme from the inside by playing FakeDefector.]]

** [[spoiler: EleventhHourRanger: Diane, the closest thing to a BigGood in the movie]]

* ToiletHumor: Mr. Piranha is prone to bouts of extremely bad gas when he gets nervous. [[spoiler: It ends up being weaponized to save Mr. Wolf and Diane in the third act.]]

** Diane is Sunnyside's Governor the BigGood of the film, thus the HeroAntagonist to the Bad Guys at the start of the film. [[spoiler: She is also the Crimson Paw, a far more concise and professional criminal who retired without ever getting caught.]] As a result she dismisses the Bad Guys as sloppy {{Big Bad Wannabe}}s, and tries to provoke them into a heist during the Good Samaritan Awards to lure them into a trap, never once thinking they'd be competent enough to actually do it and nearly losing the Golden Dolphin (and her political reputation) as a result. [[spoiler: Her confidence no other criminal can outgambit her comes into play again later on when she is made an UnwittingPawn to Marmalade, and is later caught and exposed as the Crimson Paw by him due to her cocky handling of the Zumpango Diamond, requiring the Bad Guys' help and pure fate to prevent her getting caught out. It is downplayed however, by the fact that Diane is also one of the most self observant characters in the film, able to realise her mistakes quickly enough, and later uses her better judgement between Wolf and Marmalade.]]

* VillainHasAPoint: [[spoiler: Marmalade warns Wolf in confidence that he will have to choose between his friends or having a better life. While this was only to poison Wolf's mind into betraying the other Bad Guys to help his own scheme, it was true that had he followed the others' encouragement, he would have stayed a criminal, stolen the Golden Dolphin and destroyed his friendship with Diane, thus lost the one ally that could bail them out after Marmalade framed them. Of course what Marmalade didn't anticipate is that in response, Wolf, rather than just turning his back on his friends for good, would orchestrate their own GoodFeelsGood epithany so they would ''all'' HeelFaceTurn with him.]]

* VillainProtagonist: The gang, [[spoiler: prior to their collective HeelFaceTurn.]]

** [[spoiler: Back when she was Crimson Paw, Diane ''did'' manage to easily get the Golden Dolphin in her clutches, coming closer than anyone else ever has... except a literal self-reflection prompted her to leave without her prize, as she realized she didn't want to be the thief everyone sees foxes as.]]
** [[spoiler: Despite not knowing Snake was a FakeDefector all along during the climax, the other Bad Guys find it in their hearts to ask their old friend to join their side once more. Additionally, while seemingly falling to their deaths, Wolf and Snake make up, with the latter declaring his [[PlatonicDeclarationOfLove love for his friends]]. And this is before Wolf reveals he has just the gadget to save their lives.]]

** "There, there. Of course you didn't do it, how could you? After all...[[MeaningfulEcho you're such a good boy]]." [[spoiler:This is said by Marmalade to Mr. Wolf after the gang is framed and arrested for stealing the meteorite, revealing he had been manipulating him the entire time, and was actually in disguise as the old lady at the award ceremony.]]
** The culmination of Mr. Wolf and Mr. Snake's argument in prison. To be fair, Snake got what he ''wanted'' to hear since he forced Wolf's answer.

** Following the revenge heist and ReformedVillainQuest, Diane looks set to play the role of HeroAntagonist, watching and sabotaging the group's plan at every opportunity. [[spoiler:The one time she threatens to blow the plan however turns out to be ReversePsychology, and she instead ends up Wolf's PositiveFriendInfluence and later TheSixthRanger of the group when they make their FaceHeelTurn for real. To add to the unexpected turn, Diane herself turns out to be a ReformedVillain.]]

* AdaptationExpansion: The book series starts with Mr. Wolf having already committed to becoming a good guy and gathering some other bad guy friends he knows to form a Good Guy Club. The film shows the gang already in operation as a criminal team and the inciting incident that motivates Mr. Wolf to reform.

[[caption-width-right:349:Nobody has ever failed so hard at trying to be good as The Bad Guys.[[note]]Clockwise from left to right: [[PintSizedPowerhouse Mr. Piranha]], [[MasterOfDisguise Mr. Shark]], [[SnakesAreSinister Mr. Snake]], [[BadassDriver Mr. Wolf]], and [[TheCracker Ms. Tarantula]].[[/note]]]]

Rounding out the cast are Creator/ZazieBeetz, Creator/AlexBorstein, [[WebVideo/IISuperwomanII Lilly Singh]], and Creator/RichardAyoade. The film released on April 22nd, 2022 in the US, distributed by Creator/UniversalPictures. [[https://www.animationmagazine.net/2022/11/the-bad-guys-plan-holiday-heist-for-netflix-in-2023/ A holiday special]] is set for release on Creator/{{Netflix}} in 2023.

* SympatheticVillainDespicableVillain: The titular gang of criminals are {{Noble Demon}}s who only steal high-value items and never try to actively harm anyone. They also are only evil because [[ThenLetMeBeEvil they were stereotyped into being so]]. [[[spoiler:This is why is easy for all of them to pull a HeelFaceTurn. Professor Marmalade, on the other hand, is the ''real'' villain, as he is a BitchInSheepsClothing who uses the negative stereotypes associated with the gang to manipulate the public into making himself look heroic, and is willing to stoop to lows that horrify The Bad Guys, which ultimately makes them the ones to put an end to Marmalade's plans.]]

A sequel titled ''The Bad Guys 2'' is in the works, slated for release sometime in 2025.

* PragmaticAdaptation: While the movie's tone is overall more serious and grounded than the book series (while still being a comedy involving anthropomorphic animals), the film nevertheless adapts cetain events of the first four books fairly faithfully into its own tone and style, with several scenes from the books recreated almost exactly. Some elements from episodes 5,6,9, and 11 were minorly in the movie. For example, Piranha's singing at the second gala was from book 11 when the small fish had a singing career and a music label after Shadow G defeated all the villains off-panel. Additionally, Mr. Shark, Mr. Piranha, and Webs are made more anthropomorphic, whereas the book series had them closer to animals.

* PragmaticAdaptation: While the movie's tone is overall more serious and grounded than the book series (while still being a comedy involving anthropomorphic animals), the film nevertheless adapts cetain events of the first four books fairly faithfully into its own tone and style with some elements from books 6 and 9, with several scenes from the books recreated almost exactly. Additionally, Mr. Shark, Mr. Piranha, and Webs are made more anthropomorphic, whereas the book series had them closer to animals.

* PragmaticAdaptation: While the movie's tone is overall more serious and grounded than the book series (while still being a comedy involving anthropomorphic animals), the film nevertheless adapts the events of the first four books fairly faithfully into its own tone and style, with several scenes from the books recreated almost exactly. Additionally, Mr. Shark, Mr. Piranha, and Webs are made more anthropomorphic, whereas the book series had them closer to animals.

* AdaptationalMundanity: The film covers several different parts of the book series, though while the latter was a FantasyKitchenSink of heroic adventure tropes, the film is a (relatively) simple heist/secret agent spoof. In particular, [[spoiler: Marmalade is merely a petty criminal instead an alien conquerer, Diane is city governor instead of TheChosenOne of a band of crime fighters, and the main gang do ''not'' engage in the likes of time travel or gaining super powers. (Not ''yet'' anyway.)]]

* ThePasswordIsAlwaysSwordfish: When Mr. Snake retrieves the passcode for the safe holding the Golden Dolphin, it turns out to be "12345". He rolls his eyes and sighs exasperatedly when he discovers this, especially after going through a [[AttackTheTail lot of pain to open the case]].