Tropescilloscope: Expository Hairstyle Change

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

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