Tropescilloscope: Evil-Detecting Dog

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

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