Tropescilloscope: Evil-Detecting Dog

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

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