Tropescilloscope: Beard of Evil

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

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