Tropescilloscope: Red Eyes, Take Warning

Red eyes mean that a character is evil or, at least dangerous. (read more at tvtropes.org)

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