Tropescilloscope: Expository Hairstyle Change

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

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