Tropescilloscope: Bald of Evil

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