Tropescilloscope: Expository Hairstyle Change

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

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