Tropescilloscope: Evil Laugh

Laughter as an expression of evil, especially evil-derived satisfaction. (read more at tvtropes.org)

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