Tropescilloscope: Evil Laugh

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

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