Tropescilloscope: Bald of Evil

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