Tropescilloscope: Beard of Evil

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

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