Tropescilloscope: Bitch in Sheep's Clothing

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

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