Tropescilloscope: Evil-Detecting Dog

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

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