Tropescilloscope: Bitch in Sheep's Clothing

Sweet and harmless on the outside, horrible and cruel on the inside. (read more at tvtropes.org)

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