Tropescilloscope: Evil Laugh

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

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