Tropescilloscope: Evil Laugh

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

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