Tropescilloscope: Evil-Detecting Dog

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

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