Tropescilloscope: Evil Laugh

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

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