Tropescilloscope: Expository Hairstyle Change

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

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