Tropescilloscope: Evil Laugh

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

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