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