Tropescilloscope: Expository Hairstyle Change

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

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