Tropescilloscope: Bald of Evil

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