Tropescilloscope: Bald of Evil

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