Tropescilloscope: Death Glare

If looks could kill, you'd leave in a bucket. (read more at tvtropes.org)

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