Tropescilloscope: Death Glare

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

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