Tropescilloscope: Evil Laugh

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

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