Tropescilloscope: Expository Hairstyle Change

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

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