Tropescilloscope: Expository Hairstyle Change

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

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