Tropescilloscope: Evil Laugh

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

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