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