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