Tropescilloscope: Evil Laugh

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

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