Tropescilloscope: Bald of Evil

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