Tropescilloscope: Evil-Detecting Dog

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

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