Tropescilloscope: Evil-Detecting Dog

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

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