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