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