Tropescilloscope: Evil-Detecting Dog

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

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