Tropescilloscope: Beard of Evil

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

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