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