Tropescilloscope: Death Glare

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

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True Companions Dramatic Gun Cock Reality Has No Subtitles Flipping the Bird Serious Business Dirty Coward Moment Killer Overly Long Gag Chekhov's Skill It's All About Me Award-Bait Song Adaptational Heroism Batman Gambit Documentary Logo Joke Sassy Black Woman Defrosting Ice Queen Karmic Death Fanservice Red Oni, Blue Oni Jerkass Has a Point An Aesop Cruel and Unusual Death Not So Different Colour-Coded for Your Convenience aka: Color Coded For Your Convenience Exact Words Malevolent Masked Men Non-Indicative Name Yandere Beard of Evil And Starring Antagonist Title Noodle Incident Bait-and-Switch Maybe Magic, Maybe Mundane Mystery and Detective Films Not Quite Dead Adapted Out Badass in a Nice Suit Product Placement Improvised Weapon May–December Romance Corrupt Corporate Executive O.O.C. 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Rape Is a Special Kind of Evil Idiot Ball Beta Couple Darkest Hour Dramedy Catch-Phrase Together in Death Taking the Bullet Kill It with Fire Evil Brit The Starscream Television Movie Index Chekhov's Gun Artistic License – Military Spared by the Adaptation Death by Irony Cain and Abel Mr. Fanservice Hero Antagonist Neck Lift Hate Sink Sci-Fi Horror Even Evil Has Loved Ones Shell-Shocked Veteran Never Found the Body Wounded Gazelle Gambit Leitmotif Shoot the Shaggy Dog Accidental Misnaming Adult Fear How We Got Here A God Am I Sexy Discretion Shot Gone Horribly Right British Films Time Skip Kids Are Cruel Pragmatic Villainy Fire-Forged Friends Stealth Pun Man on Fire Skewed Priorities There Is No Kill Like Overkill Woobie, Destroyer of Worlds Framing Device As the Good Book Says... 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Love Triangle Men Are the Expendable Gender Russian Films In Medias Res Our Vampires Are Different Brutal Honesty Amoral Attorney Badass Bookworm Parental Substitute Retcon Adaptation Dye-Job Reasonable Authority Figure Grievous Bottley Harm Vomit Indiscretion Shot Adults Are Useless Science Fiction Films No Good Deed Goes Unpunished Four-Temperament Ensemble Kick the Son of a Bitch Gainax Ending Agony of the Feet Dark Is Not Evil Fun with Acronyms The Great Depression Redemption Equals Death Determinator The Faceless Butt-Monkey The Chessmaster Apocalypse How Evil Plan Evil-Detecting Dog Those Wacky Nazis Instant Death Bullet Hypocritical Humor Department of Redundancy Department Those Two Guys Politically Incorrect Villain Dutch Angle Off-into-the-Distance Ending Age Lift Our Zombies Are Different The Cameo Vampire Fiction The Chick Twist Ending Cold-Blooded Torture Not What It Looks Like Only in It for the Money Funny Foreigner Humans Are Bastards Imagine Spot Call-Forward Disney Death Military and Warfare Films The Stoner Fatal Flaw Adaptation Distillation Large Ham Unusual Euphemism Pet the Dog Genre Throwback Evil Laugh Your Head A-Splode Bloodless Carnage Token Minority Laughing Mad Babies Ever After Annoying Younger Sibling Insult Backfire All Men Are Perverts B-Movie Conspicuous CG Captain Obvious Anyone Can Die Does This Remind You of Anything? Action Prologue Fantasy Films Toplessness from the Back Ghost Fiction Composite Character Ambiguously Gay Re-Cut Hair-Trigger Temper Deus ex Machina Sadistic Choice Dirty Old Man Dumb Blonde Auto Erotica 20 Minutes into the Future The Ditz Despair Event Horizon The X of Y One-Word Title Hoist by His Own Petard You Killed My Father Took a Level in Jerkass Credits Gag Australian Movies Paper-Thin Disguise Stepford Smiler Screw the Rules, I Have Money! Stealth Hi/Bye Hero of Another Story Beauty Is Never Tarnished Superhero Shut Up, Hannibal! Once More, with Clarity! Mighty Whitey Vitriolic Best Buds Well-Intentioned Extremist Badass Grandpa Sanity Slippage Overprotective Dad Manic Pixie Dream Girl Truth in Television Intrepid Reporter Slashed Throat I'm a Humanitarian Worthy Opponent Improbable Weapon User Sealed Evil in a Can Smug Snake Would Hurt a Child Rule of Symbolism Leaning on the Fourth Wall Nice Job Fixing It, Villain! Dogged Nice Guy Failed a Spot Check Fiery Redhead Nice Hat Mythology Gag Thriller Older Than They Look Curse Cut Short The Big Guy Character Development Totally Radical Narrator Ambiguous Ending Dressing as the Enemy Refuge in Audacity Defiant to the End Hell Is That Noise Cool Old Guy Romantic Comedy Gory Discretion Shot Manipulative Bastard Crucified Hero Shot Actor Allusion Broken Aesop The Smart Guy Bar Brawl Only Sane Man Continuity Nod Bad "Bad Acting" Bi the Way Pre-Mortem One-Liner Sequel Escalation Loads and Loads of Characters The Bad Guy Wins N-Word Privileges Index of Film Westerns Psychopathic Manchild The Hero Dies Broken Pedestal Girl-on-Girl Is Hot Epic Movie Big "NO!" Eyepatch of Power Word of God Based on a True Story Why Did It Have to Be Snakes? Shirtless Scene Bare Your Midriff An Axe to Grind Hypocrite Does Not Like Shoes The '80s Didn't Think This Through Take That! Nice Job Breaking It, Hero! Animal Motifs Historical Villain Upgrade Needs Wiki Magic Love Tagline Screw the Rules, I'm Doing What's Right! Expy Anti-Villain Eiffel Tower Effect Heel–Face Turn Handicapped Badass Breaking the Fourth Wall Film Noir Costume Porn Heroic BSoD Leave the Camera Running Homage Cool Car Black Best Friend Major Injury Underreaction Rewatch Bonus Neck Snap Loophole Abuse Did Not Get the Girl Abhorrent Admirer Diabolus ex Machina Motor Mouth Comically Missing the Point Card-Carrying Villain Works Set in World War II Romantic False Lead The End... Or Is It? Cool Old Lady Foregone Conclusion A Date with Rosie Palms In Name Only Anguished Declaration of Love Spiteful Spit A Father to His Men Brainless Beauty The Remake Corpsing Put on a Bus Hidden Depths Calling the Old Man Out Gilligan Cut Evil Counterpart The Stoic Expository Hairstyle Change All There in the Manual Tempting Fate Ominous Latin Chanting Silence Is Golden Bottomless Magazines Animated Credits Opening Bunny-Ears Lawyer Artistic License – History Rasputinian Death Deconstruction Spell My Name with an "S" The Mole The Vamp Action Film, Quiet Drama Scene Stock Footage Punctuated! For! Emphasis! 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They Really Do Love Each Other Bring My Brown Pants Pun aka: Incredibly Lame Pun Your Cheating Heart Celebrity Paradox He Who Fights Monsters Horror Doesn't Settle for Simple Tuesday Fan Disservice Match Cut Gratuitous English Trailers Always Spoil Last-Name Basis Training Montage As Himself Call-Back Slasher Movie Due to the Dead Crazy Jealous Guy Jerk Jock Police Brutality Crouching Moron, Hidden Badass Driven to Suicide Blonde, Brunette, Redhead Badass Boast Enemy Mine Impaled with Extreme Prejudice Really Gets Around Fantastic Racism Sequel Hook "Well Done, Son!" Guy Wretched Hive French Films He Knows Too Much timeperiod Big Fancy House Unwitting Instigator of Doom Genre Shift Face–Heel Turn Accidental Murder The Brute Dwindling Party "Shaggy Dog" Story Black Comedy Dual Wielding Historical In-Joke Combat Pragmatist Would Hit a Girl Say My Name And I Must Scream Jump Scare Parental Neglect Death Seeker No-Holds-Barred Beatdown Disguised in Drag Shout-Out Offscreen Teleportation Creepy Child Decoy Protagonist Meaningful Background Event Mistaken for Gay Dirty Cop I Have Your Wife The Smurfette Principle Heel Realization Artistic License – Physics Covers Always Lie The Ghost Chiaroscuro Playing Gertrude Children Are Innocent La Résistance Foil Good Is Not Nice Extremely Short Timespan Rule of Cool Lock and Load Montage World of Ham Immune to Bullets Manly Tears Villain Protagonist As Long as It Sounds Foreign Getting Crap Past the Radar Ms. Fanservice Get Out! Bond Villain Stupidity Toilet Humour aka: Toilet Humor Tap on the Head Irony Bland-Name Product Chewing the Scenery Evil Is Petty Destination Defenestration Honor Before Reason In the Back The Casanova Freeze-Frame Bonus Alliterative Name Broken Bird Very Loosely Based on a True Story Red Eyes, Take Warning "Where Are They Now?" Epilogue Beware the Nice Ones Zombie Stories Storming the Castle Black Dude Dies First Genre Savvy All for Nothing Big Bad Fatal Family Photo You Have Got to Be Kidding Me! Jack Bauer Interrogation Technique Blackmail Interrupted Suicide What You Are in the Dark The Ace Historical-Domain Character Naked People Are Funny Bilingual Bonus Abusive Parents Madness Mantra Too Dumb to Live Distracted by the Sexy My Beloved Smother Deliberate Values Dissonance Gorn Parental Abandonment Dissonant Serenity Mooks Laser-Guided Karma Better to Die than Be Killed Fish out of Water Bound and Gagged Show Within a Show Earn Your Happy Ending Horror Comedy Unresolved Sexual Tension Horror Films Camera Abuse The Sociopath Faking the Dead Screw the Money, I Have Rules! Off with His Head! Shown Their Work The '90s Bavarian Fire Drill Daylight Horror Adaptational Villainy Red Shirt Big Bad Duumvirate Dies Wide Open Papa Wolf My Greatest Failure One Steve Limit Real Life Writes the Plot I Just Shot Marvin in the Face Here We Go Again! Curb-Stomp Battle Mind Screw Villain with Good Publicity And the Adventure Continues Evil Cannot Comprehend Good Attempted Rape Disney Villain Death Running Gag Arc Words Cat Fight Sacrificial Lion Aluminum Christmas Trees Rule of Funny Affably Evil Jitter Cam Drill Sergeant Nasty No-Sell Funny Background Event Fainting Chekhov's Gunman Dull Surprise I Did What I Had to Do Guile Hero Insane Troll Logic The Musical Animal Title Index Femme Fatale