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