Tropescilloscope: Beard of Evil

A character's villainy is signified by the presence of a beard. (read more at tvtropes.org)

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