Tropescilloscope: Expository Hairstyle Change

Hairstyle change signals a characterization change. (read more at tvtropes.org)

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