Tropescilloscope: Beard of Evil

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

Film Frequency (%) Film Frequency (#)

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