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! Aluminum Christmas Trees Due to the Dead Darker and Edgier Ass Shove Undying Loyalty Action Film, Quiet Drama Scene Book-Ends Laughing Mad Everyone Calls Him "Barkeep" Woman in White Mama Bear Diabolus ex Machina Translation Convention Red Oni, Blue Oni Bond Villain Stupidity Would Hit a Girl Shown Their Work Throwing Your Sword Always Works Jerkass Has a Point Cool Old Lady Anyone Can Die The Vamp The Casanova Scare Chord I Just Shot Marvin in the Face Foil Shell-Shocked Veteran Irony Idiot Ball What You Are in the Dark Show Within a Show Crucified Hero Shot Historical-Domain Character Badass Normal Our Vampires Are Different Fatal Flaw Nothing Is Scarier Chase Scene I Have Your Wife Hope Spot Alpha Bitch Accidental Misnaming Small Name, Big Ego Index of Film Westerns Knight Templar Leaning on the Fourth Wall Blackmail And Starring Evil Brit Gender Flip Brutal Honesty Horror Doesn't Settle for Simple Tuesday He Knows Too Much A God Am I Insistent Terminology Double-Meaning Title Covers Always Lie Ship Tease Villainous Breakdown Madness Mantra Dark and Troubled Past "The Reason You Suck" Speech Only One Name Costume Porn Attempted Rape Mistaken for Gay Neck Lift Gilligan Cut Biopic Facial Horror Karma Houdini "Awesome McCool" Name Unusual Euphemism Dark Is Not Evil Sadistic Choice My Beloved Smother Bond One-Liner Daylight Horror Fainting Villain with Good Publicity Pragmatic Villainy All Just a Dream Stalker with a Crush Author Appeal Comically Missing the Point Vomit Discretion Shot Retired Badass Villain Opening Scene Camera Abuse Handicapped Badass Roaring Rampage of Revenge Implacable Man Shipper on Deck Sir Not-Appearing-in-This-Trailer Pyrrhic Victory Evil Is Petty Bad "Bad Acting" Stealth Hi/Bye Bar Brawl Freeze-Frame Bonus Bring My Brown Pants Jerk with a Heart of Gold Creative Closing Credits Demonic Possession Spiteful Spit Unresolved Sexual Tension Kick the Son of a Bitch Insane Troll Logic Mercy Kill Femme Fatale Hollywood Darkness Honor Before Reason Framing Device Failed a Spot Check Babies Ever After The Reveal Disney Death Film Noir Index Recap / RiffTrax aka: Riff Trax Movies Screw the Rules, I Have Money! 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! Black Best Friend Batman Gambit Mystery and Detective Films Happily Married Superhero Overprotective Dad Names to Run Away from Really Fast Slashed Throat Green-Eyed Monster Noodle Incident Cool Car The Stinger No Celebrities Were Harmed Celebrity Paradox Needs Wiki Magic Love Nice Job Breaking It, Hero! Death of a Child Malevolent Masked Men Evil Plan It's All About Me The Cameo Ms. Fanservice As the Good Book Says... The Brute A Minor Kidroduction Action Genre Groin Attack The Cavalry Large Ham Hypocrite Parental Incest Fire-Forged Friends Up to Eleven Mundane Made Awesome Air-Vent Passageway Fatal Family Photo Fish out of Water Camp Gay Here We Go Again! 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Never My Fault Bald of Evil Funny Background Event In Medias Res Heterosexual Life-Partners Establishing Character Moment Playing Gertrude Pay Evil unto Evil Woobie, Destroyer of Worlds Vampire Fiction Dutch Angle Offscreen Teleportation Disney Villain Death Be Careful What You Wish For Karmic Death The Load Dual Wielding Cassandra Truth Those Two Guys Dressing as the Enemy Artistic License – Geography Foregone Conclusion May–December Romance Neck Snap Dumb Blonde Sequel Hook Darkest Hour Red Right Hand Never Trust a Trailer aka: Trailers Always Lie Offscreen Moment of Awesome Adaptation Expansion Nice Guy Sacrificial Lion Chekhov's Gun Cold-Blooded Torture Not Even Bothering with the Accent Narrator Fanservice Face Death with Dignity All There in the Script Exact Words Bloody Hilarious Anachronic Order Adaptational Attractiveness Your Cheating Heart World of Ham Missing Mom Russian Films The Sociopath Despair Event Horizon Ambiguous Ending Obviously Evil Precision F-Strike Pretty in Mink Dying Moment of Awesome Friend to All Children Beard of Evil Expository Hairstyle Change Skewed Priorities Cain and Abel Loophole Abuse French Films Cool Old Guy As Himself Wrong Genre Savvy Overly Long Gag Asshole Victim The Great Depression Kill 'em All Reality Ensues Ambiguous Disorder The Lancer Big Brother Instinct Rousing Speech After the End Earn Your Happy Ending Hell Is That Noise Hooker with a Heart of Gold Only a Flesh Wound Broken Pedestal Epic Fail The End... 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!" Retirony Maybe Magic, Maybe Mundane Country Matters It's Personal Novelization Your Head A-Splode Improbable Weapon User The '90s Super Strength Beware the Nice Ones Determinator Four-Temperament Ensemble Catapult Nightmare Cloudcuckoolander Body Horror Ambiguously Gay Curse Cut Short Off-into-the-Distance Ending Running Gag Match Cut Decoy Protagonist I Want My Beloved to Be Happy Tagline Stuff Blowing Up Punch-Clock Villain Horror Films Training Montage Break the Haughty timeperiod The Remake Awesome, but Impractical Male Frontal Nudity Didn't Think This Through Breaking the Fourth Wall Stock Footage Bound and Gagged Fan Disservice Guile Hero Fantastic Racism Rule of Cool Badass Boast Rape Is a Special Kind of Evil Ungrateful Bastard Drowning My Sorrows Anti-Villain Historical In-Joke Dull Surprise Very Loosely Based on a True Story Tranquil Fury Curb-Stomp Battle Fourth Date Marriage "Where Are They Now?" 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