Tropescilloscope: Beard of Evil

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

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