Tropescilloscope: Bald of Evil

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