Tropescilloscope: Evil-Detecting Dog

Animals can sense evil. (read more at tvtropes.org)

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