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