Tropescilloscope: Evil-Detecting Dog

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

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Calling the Old Man Out An Axe to Grind Kick the Dog Japanese Films Facial Horror The Power of Love Disappeared Dad Deadpan Snarker Non-Indicative Name The Reveal What You Are in the Dark The '90s Man on Fire Parental Abandonment One-Word Title Artistic License – History Outrun the Fireball The Alcoholic You Have Failed Me I Need a Freaking Drink Fate Worse than Death Fanservice Sequel Escalation Spell My Name with an "S" Covers Always Lie Male Frontal Nudity Death Seeker Anachronic Order A.I. Is a Crapshoot Affably Evil Ominous Latin Chanting Rule of Funny Token Minority The Ghost Line-of-Sight Name Villainous Breakdown Knife Nut Shirtless Scene Smug Snake Car Fu Dramedy Pet the Dog The Mafia Earn Your Happy Ending Cruel and Unusual Death Fan Disservice The '50s Face Death with Dignity Jack Bauer Interrogation Technique Bitch in Sheep's Clothing Off-into-the-Distance Ending Air-Vent Passageway Hair of Gold, Heart of Gold Bound and Gagged Cold-Blooded Torture Laughing Mad The Great Depression Punch-Clock Villain Exactly What It Says on the Tin Cool Shades Wham Line Plot Hole Heroic BSoD Mad Scientist Parental Incest Arc Words Eureka Moment Cassandra Truth Gender Flip He Knows Too Much Death Glare Stylistic Suck Only a Flesh Wound Time Skip Neck Snap Dark Action Girl Pun aka: Incredibly Lame Pun Punny Name Made of Explodium Suspiciously Specific Denial Animal Title Index Light Is Not Good Martial Arts Movie Overprotective Dad Taking the Bullet Logo Joke Ironic Echo Cool Old Guy Left the Background Music On Our Vampires Are Different Adult Fear Establishing Character Moment Soundtrack Dissonance Continuity Nod Ungrateful Bastard Eiffel Tower Effect Damsel in Distress Dwindling Party Call-Back The Hero Dirty Cop The Un-Favourite aka: The Un Favorite Product Placement O.O.C. Is Serious Business Ms. Fanservice Hell Is That Noise Woman Scorned Karmic Death Crazy Jealous Guy Expy The Starscream La Résistance Bond One-Liner Badass Grandpa Mr. Fanservice Evil Counterpart Novelization Camp Gay Death of a Child Fantastic Racism Crucified Hero Shot Chiaroscuro Black and Gray Morality Sacrificial Lion The Vamp Film Series Made of Iron The Faceless Villain with Good Publicity Science Fiction Films Historical Hero Upgrade Malevolent Masked Men Last-Name Basis Serial Killer In Medias Res Fanservice Extra Daddy's Girl What Happened to the Mouse? Christmas Movies Index Toilet Humour aka: Toilet Humor All Girls Want Bad Boys The Dog Bites Back Based on a True Story Sir Swears-a-Lot Reasonable Authority Figure Informed Ability Real Life Have a Gay Old Time Danny Peary Cult Movies List Mugging the Monster Artistic License – Geography Double-Meaning Title Advertised Extra Mind Screw Scare Chord Kubrick Stare Villain Ball Extremely Short Timespan Film Noir Disproportionate Retribution A Minor Kidroduction Sassy Black Woman Fourth Date Marriage Demoted to Extra Mood Whiplash Pragmatic Villainy Dropped a Bridge on Him Karma Houdini Ragtag Bunch of Misfits Nothing Is Scarier All Just a Dream Irony German Films Those Two Bad Guys Creepy Child Self-Deprecation Yandere Take That! Red Herring Black Comedy Say My Name Jerk with a Heart of Gold Wicked Cultured Freudian Excuse Big Fancy House Black Dude Dies First Beard of Evil Evil Brit Agony of the Feet Evil-Detecting Dog The '70s Jump Scare Wounded Gazelle Gambit Epic Movie The Load The Atoner Framing Device Fat Bastard Reckless Gun Usage Butt-Monkey As Himself Obstructive Bureaucrat Dissonant Serenity Genre Throwback Too Dumb to Live No Ending Mr. Exposition Deliberately Monochrome I Just Shot Marvin in the Face Ripped from the Headlines Brother–Sister Incest Stalker with a Crush Mistaken for Gay Catch-Phrase Race Against the Clock Mighty Whitey Crazy-Prepared Offscreen Teleportation Sadistic Choice From Nobody to Nightmare Never Trust a Trailer aka: Trailers Always Lie Big-Bad Ensemble Bad "Bad Acting" Men Are the Expendable Gender The Sociopath Ambiguous Disorder Authority Equals Asskicking Reality Ensues Visual Pun Double Entendre My Greatest Failure Maybe Ever After The Stoner Badass Longcoat Homage Hidden Depths Improbable Weapon User Epic Fail Gone Horribly Right Big "NO!" Fun with Acronyms Imagine Spot Big Brother Instinct Hollywood Law Major Injury Underreaction Sports Stories Rewatch Bonus Babies Ever After BFG Darkest Hour Defrosting Ice Queen Undying Loyalty Badass Boast Market-Based Title Bare Your Midriff How We Got Here The Un-Reveal Femme Fatale Chase Scene Loophole Abuse My Beloved Smother Parental Neglect Dark Is Not Evil The Chick Insistent Terminology Improbable Aiming Skills Gratuitous English Bury Your Gays Dark and Troubled Past 20 Minutes into the Future Horror Films Playing Gertrude Took a Level in Badass Screw the Rules, I'm Doing What's Right! Eye Scream Sinister Minister Eagleland Eldritch Abomination Call-Forward Hooker with a Heart of Gold Kill 'em All folderlabel Screw the Rules, I Have Money! 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Fiery Redhead Catapult Nightmare Camera Abuse Flipping the Bird Artistic License – Law Ship Tease Older Than They Look Those Wacky Nazis Dramatic Irony Pre-Mortem One-Liner Never My Fault Colour-Coded for Your Convenience aka: Color Coded For Your Convenience Intergenerational Friendship Half the Man He Used to Be Abhorrent Admirer Meet Cute Genre Shift Woman in White "The Reason You Suck" Speech Bald of Evil Your Head A-Splode Honor Before Reason Peek-a-Boo Corpse Annoying Younger Sibling Final Girl Recap / RiffTrax aka: Riff Trax Movies The X of Y Toplessness from the Back Easily Forgiven Would Hit a Girl Rape as Drama Straight Gay Developing Doomed Characters Ambiguously Gay Brick Joke The Alleged Car Sealed Evil in a Can Tempting Fate Only in It for the Money Trailers Always Spoil An Aesop Dull Surprise Anyone Can Die Every Car Is a Pinto Shower Scene I Want My Beloved to Be Happy Dressing as the Enemy The Quiet One Dumb Blonde Slasher Movie Chekhov's Skill Throwing Your Sword Always Works Insane Troll Logic Gold Digger Married to the Job Australian Movies Storming the Castle Taking You with Me The Remake Captain Obvious Documentary Bowdlerise MacGuffin Evil Cannot Comprehend Good Hero Antagonist Slashed Throat Becoming the Mask Grievous Bottley Harm Music Stories Punctuated! For! Emphasis! Black Best Friend Knight Templar Naked People Are Funny Blood from the Mouth Bad Boss Wrong Genre Savvy Reality Has No Subtitles Early Installment Weirdness Plucky Comic Relief Sudden Sequel Death Syndrome Five-Man Band Interrupted Suicide Why Don't You Just Shoot Him? Country Matters He Who Fights Monsters British Films Domestic Abuse Not So Different Ugly Guy, Hot Wife Kick the Son of a Bitch Card-Carrying Villain Bloodless Carnage Canon Foreigner Beauty Is Never Tarnished The Oner Paper-Thin Disguise Our Zombies Are Different Adaptation Dye-Job Not What It Looks Like Rousing Speech Unwitting Instigator of Doom The Film of the Book Unresolved Sexual Tension Mundane Made Awesome Extreme Doormat Villain Opening Scene Works Set in World War II The Mole Blonde, Brunette, Redhead Bilingual Bonus All There in the Script Bland-Name Product Pimped-Out Dress Driven to Suicide Failed a Spot Check Revenge Bittersweet Ending Heel–Face Turn Woobie, Destroyer of Worlds The Ace Italian Films Make It Look Like an Accident Henpecked Husband Blood Knight Arson, Murder, and Jaywalking Vomit Discretion Shot Funny Foreigner Real Life Writes the Plot Boom, Headshot! Maybe Magic, Maybe Mundane You Have Got to Be Kidding Me! 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They Really Do Love Each Other The '80s Fish out of Water Retirony Even Evil Has Standards Roaring Rampage of Revenge All for Nothing Unusually Uninteresting Sight Arch-Enemy Department of Redundancy Department Action Film, Quiet Drama Scene Deconstruction Determinator Mercy Kill Early-Bird Cameo The Musical Curse Cut Short Shout-Out Author Appeal Belligerent Sexual Tension Posthumous Character Spiritual Successor Off with His Head! Pretty in Mink Riddle for the Ages The Voiceless Drill Sergeant Nasty Obfuscating Stupidity In the Back Historical-Domain Character Show Within a Show In Name Only Daylight Horror Happily Married B-Movie Gory Discretion Shot Papa Wolf Aside Glance Determinator aka: The Determinator Darker and Edgier Psycho for Hire The End... Or Is It? Big Eater Bloody Hilarious Cat Scare Tagline Ghost Fiction Anachronism Stew Evil Is Petty The '60s Book-Ends Laser-Guided Karma Training Montage Even Evil Has Loved Ones Affectionate Parody Hope Spot Anguished Declaration of Love Bottomless Magazines Silent Movie Public Domain Feature Films The Ditz Politically Incorrect Villain Heroic Sacrifice Big Damn Heroes Setting Update Pre-Asskicking One-Liner Vitriolic Best Buds Brutal Honesty Pay Evil unto Evil Lock and Load Montage Did Not Get the Girl Black Comedy Rape Casting Gag Heroes Want Redheads Dutch Angle Funny Background Event An Arm and a Leg Action Genre Horror Doesn't Settle for Simple Tuesday Evil vs. Evil Unspoken Plan Guarantee Eyepatch of Power Bi the Way Lighter and Softer Crouching Moron, Hidden Badass Match Cut Broken Pedestal She's Got Legs Humiliation Conga Does Not Like Shoes Apocalypse How Alliterative Name Rape Is a Special Kind of Evil Adaptation Name Change Demonic Possession Big Applesauce Worthy Opponent Genre Savvy Suddenly SHOUTING! 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Russian Films Moment Killer Friend to All Children I Did What I Had to Do Ambiguous Ending Bunny-Ears Lawyer Cool Guns Decoy Protagonist Deliberate Values Dissonance Mooks '80s Hair Awesome, but Impractical Downer Ending Beta Couple The Stoic Kill It with Fire Defiant to the End Armor-Piercing Question Badass Normal Smoking Is Cool Didn't Think This Through True Companions Conspicuous CG The Smurfette Principle Crapsack World Faking the Dead Race Lift Evil Sounds Deep Character Development Aluminum Christmas Trees Adapted Out Expository Hairstyle Change Evil Is Hammy A Date with Rosie Palms Not Even Bothering with the Accent Leave the Camera Running A God Am I Not So Stoic Important Haircut The Casanova Getting Crap Past the Radar Noodle Incident Romantic False Lead Historical Villain Upgrade Shown Their Work Manipulative Bastard Wretched Hive Precision F-Strike Handicapped Badass Redshirt Army Manly Tears Skewed Priorities Chekhov's Gunman No Antagonist Unusual Euphemism Fire-Forged Friends Badass Bookworm Screw the Money, I Have Rules! Manchild Dirty Old Man Refuge in Audacity Ass Shove Guns Akimbo Meaningful Name Bullying a Dragon Frame-Up Attempted Rape Screw This, I'm Outta Here! I Have Your Wife Badass in a Nice Suit Nice Job Fixing It, Villain! Your Cheating Heart Artistic License – Physics As Long as It Sounds Foreign This Is Gonna Suck For the Evulz The Cameo Adaptational Villainy What the Hell, Hero? Dark Reprise A Father to His Men Due to the Dead Mystery and Detective Films Shell-Shocked Veteran Central Theme Amusing Injuries Madness Mantra Romantic Comedy Well-Intentioned Extremist Actor Allusion The Dragon Hate Sink Overly Long Gag Idiot Ball Death by Sex Fainting Everyone Calls Him "Barkeep" Face–Heel Turn Obviously Evil Wham Shot Abusive Parents Never Trust a Trailer Horror Comedy Sanity Slippage Jerkass It's Personal Pragmatic Adaptation Chekhov's Gun Arranged Marriage It Will Never Catch On Costume Porn All There in the Manual Blatant Lies Spanner in the Works She Cleans Up Nicely Slasher Smile Gorn The Bully Impaled with Extreme Prejudice And Starring Never Found the Body Needs Wiki Magic Love Alpha Bitch Captain Ersatz Bloodier and Gorier Translation Convention Shoot the Shaggy Dog Adorkable Star-Crossed Lovers Meaningful Background Event Hero of Another Story Would Hurt a Child The Brute Police Brutality Adaptational Badass Girl-on-Girl Is Hot Cat Fight Television Movie Index Oh, Crap! 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