Tropescilloscope: Bald of Evil

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