Tropescilloscope: Expository Hairstyle Change

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

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Groin Attack Belligerent Sexual Tension Rich Bitch Girl-on-Girl Is Hot Broken Aesop Wounded Gazelle Gambit Ass Shove Creative Closing Credits Kick the Dog Laughing Mad Novelization Nice Hat Cold-Blooded Torture It Can Think No OSHA Compliance Beta Couple Arch-Enemy Fake Shemp Screw the Money, I Have Rules! The Smurfette Principle Offscreen Moment of Awesome Stepford Smiler Silent Movie German Films Parental Abandonment Have a Gay Old Time Early Installment Weirdness The Bully Artistic License – Biology Action Survivor Recycled IN SPACE! Show Within a Show He Knows Too Much Naïve Newcomer Villainous Breakdown Intergenerational Friendship Hair of Gold, Heart of Gold Star-Crossed Lovers Title Drop Once More, with Clarity! 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Daddy's Girl Action Girl Corpsing Suspiciously Similar Substitute Screw This, I'm Outta Here! Together in Death Black Comedy Sacrificial Lion Anachronic Order Hoist by His Own Petard Dies Wide Open Shower Scene Credits Gag Dramatic Irony Villain Protagonist The Mafia Sole Survivor What the Hell, Hero? Card-Carrying Villain Stuff Blowing Up From Bad to Worse Defiant to the End Meaningful Echo Four-Temperament Ensemble The Voiceless Spanner in the Works Sequel Escalation I Have Your Wife Bittersweet Ending Sudden Sequel Death Syndrome Idiot Ball The Smart Guy Faux Affably Evil Not Using the "Z" Word The End... Or Is It? Here We Go Again! Suspiciously Specific Denial Friend to All Children Gilligan Cut Bilingual Bonus Gratuitous English Kubrick Stare Dramatic Gun Cock Cassandra Truth Running Gag Honor Before Reason Dark and Troubled Past Spell My Name with an "S" Does This Remind You of Anything? 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Hero of Another Story All Just a Dream Madness Mantra Slap-Slap-Kiss The Film of the Book Central Theme Romantic Comedy Improvised Weapon Self-Deprecation Adaptation Distillation Take a Third Option Shell-Shocked Veteran Important Haircut Say My Name Sanity Slippage Adults Are Useless Bottomless Magazines Ragtag Bunch of Misfits The Alleged Car Taking You with Me Bloody Hilarious Crapsack World Advertised Extra Trailers Always Spoil Insult Backfire Sci-Fi Horror Chiaroscuro Not What It Looks Like Shipper on Deck Serious Business Made of Explodium Despair Event Horizon Wretched Hive Take That! The Reveal Black Comedy Rape Exact Words The Hero Dies Reasonable Authority Figure Our Vampires Are Different La Résistance Foreshadowing Sinister Minister Interrupted Suicide Rousing Speech Sealed Evil in a Can Black and Gray Morality Heel–Face Turn Yandere Love Triangle It's Personal Casting Gag Nothing Is Scarier Disney Villain Death Historical-Domain Character Fanservice '80s Hair Cool Old Guy Greater-Scope Villain Damsel in Distress The Starscream Expy Super Strength Establishing Character Moment Amusing Injuries Military and Warfare Films Getting Crap Past the Radar Jump Scare Twist Ending timeperiod Same Language Dub Retcon Manipulative Bastard Leave the Camera Running Karma Houdini Sliding Scale of Idealism vs. Cynicism Awesome, but Impractical Tranquil Fury Kick the Son of a Bitch Camp Gay Hope Spot The Oner The Faceless Blatant Lies Authority Equals Asskicking Meet Cute Scenery Porn One Steve Limit Captain Ersatz Small Name, Big Ego Break the Haughty Wicked Cultured Put on a Bus The Cavalry Heroic BSoD Soundtrack Dissonance Italian Films Narrator Crouching Moron, Hidden Badass Animal Motifs The Hero Fish out of Water Facial Horror Auto Erotica Disguised in Drag Eldritch Abomination "Where Are They Now?" 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What You Are in the Dark Papa Wolf Even Evil Has Standards Evil Plan Hypocrite Hypocritical Humor Index of Film Westerns After the End Wrong Genre Savvy Why Don't You Just Shoot Him? Cool Old Lady Parental Incest Let's Get Dangerous! Gone Horribly Right Action Genre Training Montage Vitriolic Best Buds The '80s Humiliation Conga All There in the Manual You Have Failed Me Overprotective Dad Race Lift Sassy Black Woman What Happened to the Mouse? 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Conspicuous CG Only One Name Retired Badass Artistic License – Gun Safety Blood from the Mouth N-Word Privileges Knight Templar Bound and Gagged Big-Bad Ensemble Victoria's Secret Compartment Horror Comedy Brainless Beauty Corrupt Corporate Executive Scenery Gorn A God Am I Left the Background Music On And the Adventure Continues Boom, Headshot! 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Happily Married Death by Sex Deal with the Devil Big Brother Instinct Stylistic Suck She Cleans Up Nicely Scare Chord Adaptation Dye-Job Man on Fire In Name Only Easily Forgiven Aluminum Christmas Trees Ambiguously Gay Toilet Humour aka: Toilet Humor Line-of-Sight Name Not Quite Dead Breaking the Fourth Wall One-Man Army Deliberate Values Dissonance Mexican Standoff Adult Fear Product Placement Affably Evil Men Are the Expendable Gender Extremely Short Timespan Cool Guns Hooker with a Heart of Gold Ascended Extra Drowning My Sorrows Evil Is Hammy Early-Bird Cameo Actually Pretty Funny Canon Foreigner My Beloved Smother Epic Fail Slasher Smile Not Even Bothering with the Accent Spiteful Spit Would Hit a Girl Guns Akimbo Film Noir Index Not So Above It All Biopic Artistic License – Physics Anti-Villain Heel Realization Martial Arts Movie Kids Are Cruel Vacation Films Abusive Parents Black Dude Dies First Dark Reprise Dark Action Girl Character Development O.O.C. Is Serious Business Unwitting Instigator of Doom Visual Pun Plot Hole Better to Die than Be Killed The Chessmaster Abhorrent Admirer Animated Credits Opening Department of Redundancy Department Artistic License – Military Room Full of Crazy Suddenly SHOUTING! Captain Obvious Fate Worse than Death World of Ham Danny Peary Cult Movies List In the Back Genre Throwback Half the Man He Used to Be Leaning on the Fourth Wall Off with His Head! Final Girl Heterosexual Life-Partners Wham Line Pre-Asskicking One-Liner Reality Ensues Tempting Fate Nice Job Fixing It, Villain! Shirtless Scene Evil Laugh Composite Character Depraved Bisexual I Need a Freaking Drink Dressing as the Enemy Neck Snap Darkest Hour Alpha Bitch Superhero Bavarian Fire Drill Our Zombies Are Different Villain Song One-Word Title The Vamp Loads and Loads of Characters Australian Movies Anyone Can Die Ripped from the Headlines Lighter and Softer Adaptational Villainy Continuity Nod The Sociopath Driven to Suicide Woobie, Destroyer of Worlds Evil Brit Lampshade Hanging Badass Normal Fire-Forged Friends Rasputinian Death Funny Foreigner B-Movie 20 Minutes into the Future Setting Update Documentary Dogged Nice Guy Whole Plot Reference Refuge in Audacity Combat Pragmatist Every Car Is a Pinto Badass Bookworm Last-Name Basis Dutch Angle Silence Is Golden Very Loosely Based on a True Story The Dog Bites Back Bunny-Ears Lawyer An Aesop Skewed Priorities Red Eyes, Take Warning Only a Flesh Wound Revenge Bar Brawl Agony of the Feet A.I. Is a Crapshoot Overly Long Gag Non-Indicative Name You Killed My Father I Just Shot Marvin in the Face Curse Cut Short Dramedy Does Not Like Shoes