Tropescilloscope: Evil Laugh

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

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