Tropescilloscope: Bald of Evil

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