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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Every Car Is a Pinto Oh, Crap! 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Historical Villain Upgrade Whole Plot Reference A Date with Rosie Palms Punny Name Protagonist Title Suspiciously Specific Denial Re-Cut Not What It Looks Like Ugly Guy, Hot Wife Take That! Pre-Asskicking One-Liner Contrived Coincidence Token Minority Motor Mouth Captain Ersatz Pun aka: Incredibly Lame Pun Adaptation Dye-Job My Greatest Failure Enemy Mine Manipulative Bastard Bare Your Midriff Dirty Coward For the Evulz Pet the Dog Dark Reprise Alas, Poor Villain Psycho for Hire Mexican Standoff Arranged Marriage Redshirt Army Toplessness from the Back Rewatch Bonus Monumental Damage Gainax Ending O.O.C. Is Serious Business Death Glare Soundtrack Dissonance Music Stories Wounded Gazelle Gambit 20 Minutes into the Future Hollywood Law Anti-Hero Works Set in World War II The Dog Bites Back Developing Doomed Characters The Atoner Chiaroscuro Romantic Comedy Off with His Head! Rule of Three The Stoner Affably Evil My God, What Have I Done? Tempting Fate Beauty Is Never Tarnished Flashback Sole Survivor Villain Song Properly Paranoid The Place Mr. Exposition The '60s Grey and Gray Morality The X of Y Bottomless Magazines Black and Gray Morality Dwindling Party Danny Peary Cult Movies List Heroes Want Redheads Apocalypse How Shut Up, Hannibal! Bitch in Sheep's Clothing Impaled with Extreme Prejudice Extremely Short Timespan Made of Explodium Villain Ball Eiffel Tower Effect Market-Based Title The Film of the Book Wham Shot Crouching Moron, Hidden Badass Chekhov's Gunman NO INDOOR VOICE Eye Scream Cowboy Cop Reality Is Unrealistic Cluster F-Bomb Final Girl Fanservice Extra Cat Fight Insult Backfire Frame-Up Pragmatic Adaptation Badass Longcoat Interrupted Suicide One Steve Limit Canon Foreigner No Name Given Wham Line Psychopathic Manchild And the Adventure Continues Sanity Slippage Laser-Guided Karma Did Not Get the Girl She's Got Legs Unreliable Narrator Knife Nut Paper-Thin Disguise Villain Protagonist Badass Grandpa Same Language Dub Action Girl Meaningful Background Event Riddle for the Ages Smug Snake Greater-Scope Villain Abhorrent Admirer Bait-and-Switch '80s Hair Bunny-Ears Lawyer Politically Incorrect Villain Red Herring Deliberate Values Dissonance Artistic License – Physics Fun with Acronyms Instant Death Bullet Sliding Scale of Idealism vs. Cynicism Berserk Button Screw This, I'm Outta Here! Informed Ability Say My Name Mr. Fanservice Ascended Extra Getting Crap Past the Radar Serious Business Cool Shades Screw the Rules, I'm Doing What's Right! Affectionate Parody Famous Last Words Not Using the "Z" Word Let's Get Dangerous! Imperial Stormtrooper Marksmanship Academy Children Are Innocent Film Noir Wicked Cultured No OSHA Compliance Back from the Dead Almost Kiss The Power of Love Unspoken Plan Guarantee Corrupt Corporate Executive Toilet Humour aka: Toilet Humor All There in the Manual Public Domain Feature Films It Will Never Catch On Fat Bastard Romantic False Lead Parental Neglect Deus ex Machina Action Survivor Dirty Old Man Only in It for the Money Kick the Dog The Alleged Car Heroic Sacrifice Author Avatar Really Gets Around Police are Useless This Is Gonna Suck Men Are the Expendable Gender Poor Communication Kills There Is No Kill Like Overkill Not So Above It All Blonde, Brunette, Redhead Leitmotif Vacation Films Deconstruction Henpecked Husband Flipping the Bird Punctuated! For! Emphasis! 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Married to the Job Pimped-Out Dress Amoral Attorney Horror Comedy Obfuscating Stupidity MacGuffin The Voiceless Chuck Cunningham Syndrome Aside Glance No-Sell Even Evil Has Standards Slasher Smile The Big Guy Ragtag Bunch of Misfits Together in Death Moment Killer Catch-Phrase Award-Bait Song All for Nothing Domestic Abuse BFG Plucky Comic Relief Leave the Camera Running Adapted Out In the Back Adaptational Badass Victoria's Secret Compartment Fingore Armor-Piercing Question Bloodier and Gorier Taking You with Me Authority Equals Asskicking Genre Savvy Sir Swears-a-Lot Not So Stoic Nice Hat N-Word Privileges Kids Are Cruel Naked People Are Funny German Films Hate Sink Abusive Parents Film Series Recycled IN SPACE! 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Or Is It? Bi the Way Dies Wide Open Red Eyes, Take Warning Annoying Younger Sibling Closed Circle Casting Gag Hero of Another Story The Chessmaster Does This Remind You of Anything? Scenery Gorn Dissonant Serenity Obstructive Bureaucrat Eldritch Abomination You Have Failed Me As Long as It Sounds Foreign I Need a Freaking Drink Bad Boss Took a Level in Jerkass Science Fiction Films Drugs Are Bad Gory Discretion Shot Those Wacky Nazis Actor Allusion Betty and Veronica Parental Abandonment Hair-Trigger Temper Immune to Bullets Age Lift A.I. Is a Crapshoot Rape as Drama Driven to Suicide Antagonist Title Arch-Enemy Continuity Nod You Have Got to Be Kidding Me! Broken Aesop Big Applesauce Credits Gag Documentary Spared by the Adaptation Foreshadowing The Un-Favourite aka: The Un Favorite Good Is Not Nice Homage Posthumous Character Crapsack World Coming-of-Age Story More Dakka Face–Heel Turn "Shaggy Dog" Story Nice Job Fixing It, Villain! Unusually Uninteresting Sight Suddenly SHOUTING! Spell My Name with an "S" Becoming the Mask Those Two Bad Guys Even Bad Men Love Their Mamas Love at First Sight Fantasy Films Combat Pragmatist Stealth Pun Well-Intentioned Extremist No-Holds-Barred Beatdown Never Trust a Trailer Real Life Serial Killer Creepy Child Captain Obvious Italian Films Beta Couple Papa Wolf Drives Like Crazy Extreme Doormat Eureka Moment Arc Words From Bad to Worse The Ditz Dramedy Damsel in Distress Jerkass Pre-Mortem One-Liner Adaptation Name Change The Ghost Humiliation Conga Evil Counterpart Silent Movie Shoot the Shaggy Dog Maybe Ever After Badass Bookworm Reasonable Authority Figure Heroic BSoD Sexy Discretion Shot Arson, Murder, and Jaywalking Yandere Twist Ending Why Don't You Just Shoot Him? Butt-Monkey Stepford Smiler Aww, Look! They Really Do Love Each Other Empathic Environment Black Comedy Sequel Escalation Reckless Gun Usage Sassy Black Woman Evil-Detecting Dog Bolivian Army Ending Ooh, Me Accent's Slipping How We Got Here Lampshade Hanging The '80s Hero Antagonist Not Quite Dead Grievous Bottley Harm Have a Gay Old Time Refuge in Audacity The Dragon I'm a Humanitarian You Have Outlived Your Usefulness Setting Update Killed Mid-Sentence Agony of the Feet Mind Screw Hair of Gold, Heart of Gold Big Damn Heroes Ghost Fiction The Ace The Quiet One Last-Name Basis Evil vs. Evil Sports Stories Accidental Murder Sealed Evil in a Can Call-Forward folderlabel Non-Indicative Name Spiritual Successor The Un-Reveal Auto Erotica Action Prologue Genre Throwback Department of Redundancy Department Bilingual Bonus Improbable Aiming Skills Animal Title Index The Dreaded La Résistance He Who Fights Monsters Gratuitous English Anachronism Stew Bullying a Dragon Plot Hole Fake Shemp Exactly What It Says on the Tin Shower Scene She Cleans Up Nicely Hoist by His Own Petard Faking the Dead Spanner in the Works The Mafia Big Fancy House Older Than They Look Funny Foreigner Mythology Gag The Smurfette Principle Australian Movies Slap-Slap-Kiss The '70s Artistic License – Military Adaptation Distillation Parental Substitute Only Sane Man Character Development Distracted by the Sexy Rule of Funny Take a Third Option Silence Is Golden Evil Is Hammy Wretched Hive Star-Crossed Lovers Peek-a-Boo Corpse Why Did It Have to Be Snakes? Amusing Injuries Self-Deprecation Meaningful Name Depraved Bisexual Disproportionate Retribution Hong Kong Films Big "NO!" 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Epilogue Heel–Face Turn Deal with the Devil Shirtless Scene Lock and Load Montage Jitter Cam Faux Affably Evil Brother–Sister Incest Daddy's Girl Car Fu Vomit Indiscretion Shot Ironic Echo Woman Scorned No Antagonist Disappeared Dad Everyone Has Standards Martial Arts Movie No Good Deed Goes Unpunished Card-Carrying Villain Zombie Stories Improvised Weapon Deliberately Monochrome Deadpan Snarker Random Events Plot British Films Once More, with Clarity! Stylistic Suck Hypocritical Humor The Lost Lenore War Is Hell Rule of Symbolism Evil Laugh Christmas Movies Index Line-of-Sight Name Visual Pun Took a Level in Badass Mugging the Monster Police Brutality Animated Credits Opening Shout-Out The Alcoholic Early Installment Weirdness Race Against the Clock Girl-on-Girl Is Hot Defrosting Ice Queen Important Haircut Based on a True Story Big Bad Duumvirate Five-Man Band Blood from the Mouth Animal Motifs Death by Irony Adaptational Heroism Adaptational Villainy Jerk Jock Mighty Whitey Love Triangle Mad Scientist Manchild Screw the Money, I Have Rules! Gorn Even Evil Has Loved Ones Smoking Is Cool Freudian Excuse Worthy Opponent Easily Forgiven Sinister Minister Gold Digger In Name Only Demoted to Extra Redemption Equals Death Reality Has No Subtitles Artistic License – Law Downer Ending Calling the Old Man Out Not So Different Artistic License – History Heel Realization "Well Done, Son!" Guy Our Zombies Are Different Better to Die than Be Killed Big-Bad Ensemble Tap on the Head All Girls Want Bad Boys Time Skip Never Found the Body Put on a Bus Revenge Slasher Movie What the Hell, Hero? Death by Adaptation Major Injury Underreaction Cat Scare Sudden Sequel Death Syndrome Early-Bird Cameo An Arm and a Leg Only Known by Their Nickname Crazy-Prepared An Axe to Grind Composite Character Dark Action Girl Black Comedy Rape The Hero Dies The Hero Gone Horribly Right B-Movie Death Seeker Pretty Little Headshots Artistic License – Biology Epic Movie Japanese Films I Did What I Had to Do Rated M for Manly Alliterative Name The Mole As You Know Totally Radical Naïve Newcomer Roger Ebert: Great Movies List Destination Defenestration Call-Back Outrun the Fireball Historical Hero Upgrade Make It Look Like an Accident Fiery Redhead You Killed My Father Adults Are Useless Room Full of Crazy Video Credits Canadian Movies For Want of a Nail Light Is Not Good Psychological Thriller Sci-Fi Horror Conspicuous CG Chewing the Scenery Brainless Beauty Chekhov's Skill Bittersweet Ending Meet Cute Mood Whiplash Actually Pretty Funny Manly Tears Guns Akimbo The '50s A Father to His Men Suspiciously Similar Substitute Real Life Writes the Plot Ax-Crazy Lighter and Softer Boom, Headshot! Bloodless Carnage Disguised in Drag Central Theme Drill Sergeant Nasty Black Dude Dies First Dramatic Gun Cock Intergenerational Friendship The Faceless Male Gaze Scenery Porn Dramatic Irony Trailers Always Spoil Man on Fire Blood Knight Crazy Jealous Guy Adult Fear Colour-Coded for Your Convenience aka: Color Coded For Your Convenience Imagine Spot Get Out! Storming the Castle Badass in a Nice Suit Defiant to the End Too Dumb to Live Morality Pet Vitriolic Best Buds Big Eater The Stoic Improbable Infant Survival aka: Infant Immortality Creator Cameo Jack Bauer Interrogation Technique An Aesop Ominous Latin Chanting Bury Your Gays Straight Gay Left the Background Music On Eyepatch of Power Loads and Loads of Characters Scary Black Man Adorkable Manic Pixie Dream Girl The Bully Meaningful Echo Broken Bird The Starscream Rich Bitch