Tropescilloscope: Death Glare

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

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Wicked Cultured NO INDOOR VOICE Hero of Another Story Aside Glance The Starscream Adaptational Villainy Love Triangle Spanner in the Works Agony of the Feet Hypocrite Awesome, but Impractical Frame-Up "Well Done, Son!" 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One-Man Army Arranged Marriage Homage As the Good Book Says... Insane Troll Logic Dark Reprise timeperiod Beauty Is Never Tarnished Men Are the Expendable Gender Creative Closing Credits Eye Scream Posthumous Character Not Even Bothering with the Accent Fingore Properly Paranoid Spiritual Successor Darker and Edgier O.O.C. Is Serious Business Flipping the Bird Setting Update War Is Hell My Greatest Failure Happily Married The X of Y Sassy Black Woman Punch-Clock Villain Double-Meaning Title Dirty Cop Celebrity Paradox Honor Before Reason Works Set in World War II You Have Failed Me Made of Iron Unspoken Plan Guarantee Slashed Throat The Ghost Crazy Jealous Guy Establishing Character Moment Femme Fatale Politically Incorrect Villain Real Life Writes the Plot Missing Mom Screw the Money, I Have Rules! Dwindling Party Cowboy Cop Extreme Doormat Wrong Genre Savvy Horror Comedy Disney Villain Death Black and Gray Morality A Father to His Men Playing Gertrude Biopic Punctuated! For! Emphasis! Berserk Button The Power of Love Cool Old Lady Artistic License – Physics No Good Deed Goes Unpunished Gilligan Cut Crazy-Prepared And I Must Scream Race Against the Clock Pretty Little Headshots Sudden Sequel Death Syndrome Scary Black Man Almost Kiss Contrived Coincidence Not So Different Anachronism Stew Enemy Mine Shown Their Work Cain and Abel Taking the Bullet Fat Bastard Mama Bear The Stoner Protagonist Title Dark and Troubled Past Animal Motifs Science Fiction Films Half the Man He Used to Be Easily Forgiven Death Seeker Curse Cut Short Amoral Attorney Adorkable Badass Longcoat Well-Intentioned Extremist Lighter and Softer Unusually Uninteresting Sight Maybe Magic, Maybe Mundane Bullying a Dragon Victoria's Secret Compartment Call-Forward Stalker with a Crush Heel Realization Heroic BSoD Everyone Calls Him "Barkeep" Epic Movie Decoy Protagonist Defiant to the End Idiot Ball In Name Only Dissonant Serenity Empathic Environment Offscreen Moment of Awesome Even Bad Men Love Their Mamas Dressing as the Enemy Plot Hole Meaningful Name Rape as Drama The End... Or Is It? Dirty Old Man "Where Are They Now?" Epilogue Badass Grandpa Shell-Shocked Veteran Pragmatic Villainy The Lancer Major Injury Underreaction Screw the Rules, I'm Doing What's Right! Shout-Out Visual Pun Woobie, Destroyer of Worlds Heroes Want Redheads B-Movie Pragmatic Adaptation You Have Outlived Your Usefulness Mugging the Monster Obfuscating Stupidity Does Not Like Shoes Public Domain Feature Films Bottomless Magazines Four-Temperament Ensemble She Cleans Up Nicely Early Installment Weirdness The Place Monumental Damage Groin Attack Bond One-Liner Central Theme Imperial Stormtrooper Marksmanship Academy Rule of Funny Spiteful Spit Would Hit a Girl Not Quite Dead Your Cheating Heart Outrun the Fireball Music Stories All for Nothing Historical Hero Upgrade Good Is Not Nice Deal with the Devil Darkest Hour Paper-Thin Disguise Antagonist Title Light Is Not Good Bunny-Ears Lawyer Broken Bird For Want of a Nail More Dakka Pet the Dog The Ace Body Horror MacGuffin Face Death with Dignity Composite Character Japanese Films Rule of Cool Genre Throwback Accidental Misnaming Fiery Redhead Diabolus ex Machina I Have Your Wife Hell Is That Noise Bi the Way Armor-Piercing Question A.I. Is a Crapshoot Black Comedy All Just a Dream The Mole Whole Plot Reference Bring My Brown Pants World of Ham Nice Job Fixing It, Villain! Country Matters Fate Worse than Death Unwitting Instigator of Doom Love at First Sight Hair-Trigger Temper Stylistic Suck Artistic License – Military Badass Boast I Need a Freaking Drink Straight Gay Fourth Date Marriage For the Evulz Older Than They Look All There in the Script Manipulative Bastard Madness Mantra Dies Wide Open Anti-Villain Our Vampires Are Different Exactly What It Says on the Tin Cool Old Guy Have a Gay Old Time As You Know Redemption Equals Death Killed Mid-Sentence Bowdlerise Toplessness from the Back Coming-of-Age Story Affably Evil Disney Death Once More, with Clarity! 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Adaptational Badass Henpecked Husband It Can Think Mundane Made Awesome Not So Stoic Adult Fear Wham Line Bland-Name Product An Arm and a Leg No OSHA Compliance Humiliation Conga Evil-Detecting Dog Drowning My Sorrows Adaptation Distillation Christmas Movies Index Greater-Scope Villain Continuity Nod Jerk Jock Blood from the Mouth Noodle Incident Plucky Comic Relief Gone Horribly Right The Mafia Foil Daddy's Girl Overprotective Dad Card-Carrying Villain Historical Villain Upgrade This Is Gonna Suck Deus ex Machina Kill 'em All Chekhov's Gunman Manly Tears Irony Time Skip Blatant Lies Smug Snake Trailers Always Spoil Crouching Moron, Hidden Badass Reality Is Unrealistic Affectionate Parody Bloody Hilarious Faux Affably Evil Abhorrent Admirer Let's Get Dangerous! What You Are in the Dark Animated Credits Opening A Date with Rosie Palms Soft Glass Neck Snap Silence Is Golden Never Trust a Trailer aka: Trailers Always Lie Super Strength Off with His Head! 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Vitriolic Best Buds Psychological Thriller Jerkass Has a Point Dark Action Girl All Girls Want Bad Boys Kubrick Stare Bar Brawl How We Got Here Karma Houdini Disproportionate Retribution One Steve Limit Bloodless Carnage In the Back The Load Canadian Movies Disguised in Drag Male Gaze Actually Pretty Funny Beware the Nice Ones Big Applesauce Bald of Evil Action Prologue Horror Doesn't Settle for Simple Tuesday Black Best Friend Parental Substitute Meaningful Background Event Italian Films Silent Movie Kill It with Fire Villain Protagonist The '70s Make It Look Like an Accident Sanity Slippage Advertised Extra Guns Akimbo Poor Communication Kills Babies Ever After Only a Flesh Wound Pyrrhic Victory Chuck Cunningham Syndrome Sir Swears-a-Lot Action Survivor Motor Mouth Suspiciously Specific Denial Faking the Dead Loads and Loads of Characters Pimped-Out Dress Reality Has No Subtitles Naked People Are Funny Disappeared Dad Demonic Possession Obviously Evil Downer Ending From Nobody to Nightmare Sequel Escalation Suspiciously Similar Substitute One-Word Title Took a Level in Jerkass Developing Doomed Characters Big Bad Abusive Parents Anti-Hero May–December Romance The '50s Bare Your Midriff Auto Erotica Adaptation Name Change Arson, Murder, and Jaywalking Fire-Forged Friends The Lost Lenore Meet Cute Conspicuous CG Red Oni, Blue Oni N-Word Privileges Badass Bookworm Running Gag No-Holds-Barred Beatdown Fanservice Extra Here We Go Again! Double Entendre Creepy Child Knight Templar Man on Fire Television Movie Index Domestic Abuse Aluminum Christmas Trees Catch-Phrase Expy Adaptational Heroism Token Minority Canon Foreigner Cool Guns And the Adventure Continues Arc Words Deliberate Values Dissonance The Film of the Book Manic Pixie Dream Girl Ghost Fiction Chase Scene The Stoic Yandere Chekhov's Skill Break the Haughty Batman Gambit Ambiguous Ending Insult Backfire Grievous Bottley Harm Vomit Discretion Shot Intergenerational Friendship Breaking the Fourth Wall Recycled IN SPACE! Extremely Short Timespan Mystery and Detective Films Kids Are Cruel Video Credits Red Right Hand Evil Counterpart "Awesome McCool" Name Loophole Abuse Re-Cut Meaningful Echo German Films Morality Pet The Smart Guy Bad Boss Historical In-Joke Eyepatch of Power Ambiguous Disorder I Just Shot Marvin in the Face Those Two Bad Guys Deadpan Snarker Chiaroscuro Papa Wolf The Hero Military and Warfare Films Toilet Humour aka: Toilet Humor folderlabel Documentary Get Out! Show Within a Show Real Life Mistaken for Gay Sole Survivor Training Montage Together in Death Sealed Evil in a Can It's All About Me Crapsack World Obstructive Bureaucrat Villain Ball Ugly Guy, Hot Wife British Films Fish out of Water Villain with Good Publicity The Casanova Off-into-the-Distance Ending Gold Digger The Big Guy Butt-Monkey Too Dumb to Live Mooks Brutal Honesty Catapult Nightmare Brick Joke Reality Ensues All Men Are Perverts Dark Is Not Evil Retcon Action Film, Quiet Drama Scene Oh, Crap! Distracted by the Sexy Recap / RiffTrax aka: Riff Trax Movies Brother–Sister Incest Evil Plan Colour-Coded for Your Convenience aka: Color Coded For Your Convenience As Long as It Sounds Foreign The Oner Line-of-Sight Name Psychopathic Manchild Unresolved Sexual Tension Married to the Job Eiffel Tower Effect No Name Given Friend to All Children Rousing Speech Sir Not-Appearing-in-This-Trailer Eagleland Even Evil Has Loved Ones Rich Bitch Malevolent Masked Men Character Development Interrupted Suicide Break the Cutie Fainting Screw This, I'm Outta Here! Big "NO!" Nothing Is Scarier 20 Minutes into the Future Refuge in Audacity Ambiguously Gay Cat Scare Unusual Euphemism '80s Hair French Films Martial Arts Movie Creator Cameo Same Language Dub Be Careful What You Wish For The '90s Cassandra Truth Storming the Castle Captain Ersatz Exact Words Film Noir Index No Antagonist Dogged Nice Guy Villain Opening Scene Karmic Death "Shaggy Dog" Story Slap-Slap-Kiss Even Evil Has Standards Sinister Minister Offscreen Teleportation Rasputinian Death Tagline Better to Die than Be Killed Mr. Exposition Spell My Name with an "S" Index of Film Westerns Fun with Acronyms Important Haircut Cool Shades Crucified Hero Shot Not Using the "Z" Word Unreliable Narrator No Celebrities Were Harmed Hate Sink Damsel in Distress The Chick Evil Sounds Deep Gainax Ending Freeze-Frame Bonus Spared by the Adaptation A Minor Kidroduction Getting Crap Past the Radar Improbable Aiming Skills Sacrificial Lion Heroic Sacrifice Fan Disservice Vampire Fiction Slasher Movie Kick the Dog Curb-Stomp Battle Horror Films Adaptational Attractiveness Becoming the Mask Mood Whiplash Very Loosely Based on a True Story I Want My Beloved to Be Happy Framing Device Closed Circle Betty and Veronica Rule of Three Bond Villain Stupidity The Alleged Car Suddenly SHOUTING! Bad "Bad Acting" Based on a True Story I Did What I Had to Do Red Eyes, Take Warning Dropped a Bridge on Him Author Avatar Australian Movies Only in It for the Money Impaled with Extreme Prejudice The Cavalry Costume Porn Knife Nut Names to Run Away from Really Fast Evil vs. Evil Does This Remind You of Anything? The Faceless Action Girl Due to the Dead Never Trust a Trailer Air-Vent Passageway Big Brother Instinct Product Placement Alliterative Name Big Eater Bait-and-Switch Sadistic Choice Genre Shift Why Did It Have to Be Snakes? And Starring Improvised Weapon Accidental Murder Evil Laugh Defrosting Ice Queen Death Glare Psycho for Hire Camp Gay Undying Loyalty Informed Ability Small Name, Big Ego Brainless Beauty Foregone Conclusion Green-Eyed Monster Logo Joke Bloodier and Gorier Everyone Has Standards Call-Back Ragtag Bunch of Misfits Captain Obvious Dual Wielding Badass Normal Retired Badass Kick the Son of a Bitch Those Wacky Nazis Stealth Hi/Bye My Beloved Smother Hypocritical Humor Mighty Whitey Scenery Porn Smoking Is Cool Award-Bait Song Action Genre Laughing Mad Dumb Blonde Funny Background Event Serial Killer Twist Ending Implacable Man Early-Bird Cameo Left the Background Music On The Bully Jerkass Narrator Translation Convention Lampshade Hanging Worthy Opponent Ms. Fanservice A God Am I Freudian Excuse Put on a Bus Cold-Blooded Torture Only One Name Mythology Gag Death of a Child Deliberately Monochrome Overly Long Gag The Un-Reveal Why Don't You Just Shoot Him? Peek-a-Boo Corpse Soundtrack Dissonance Genre Savvy Up to Eleven He Who Fights Monsters Jack Bauer Interrogation Technique Wham Shot Totally Radical Age Lift Shirtless Scene Red Shirt Earn Your Happy Ending Shut Up, Hannibal! Instant Death Bullet Broken Aesop Stock Footage Dirty Coward Drill Sergeant Nasty The '60s Hope Spot The Bad Guy Wins It Will Never Catch On Failed a Spot Check Vomit Indiscretion Shot Laser-Guided Karma Parental Incest Riddle for the Ages Comically Missing the Point Pun aka: Incredibly Lame Pun Black Comedy Rape Gory Discretion Shot Grey and Gray Morality Punny Name The Voiceless Hair of Gold, Heart of Gold The Dog Bites Back Eureka Moment Determinator Amusing Injuries Those Two Guys The Quiet One Parental Neglect Arch-Enemy Large Ham Evil Is Petty Car Fu The Dreaded Ungrateful Bastard Children Are Innocent Belligerent Sexual Tension He Knows Too Much After the End Not What It Looks Like Stuff Blowing Up Flashback Deconstruction No-Sell Back from the Dead Bury Your Gays Alpha Bitch