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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Is Serious Business I Need a Freaking Drink Sir Swears-a-Lot Beard of Evil Reckless Gun Usage Names to Run Away from Really Fast The Smart Guy Scary Black Man My Greatest Failure Bring My Brown Pants Creative Closing Credits Cold-Blooded Torture Deliberate Values Dissonance Nice Guy Determinator Evil Laugh Unusually Uninteresting Sight Betty and Veronica Spiritual Successor The Hero Dies Never Trust a Trailer Translation Convention Heel Realization Tap on the Head Exactly What It Says on the Tin Match Cut No Ending Didn't Think This Through Woobie, Destroyer of Worlds Author Appeal Stock Footage Take That! Bottomless Magazines Pre-Mortem One-Liner Man on Fire Logo Joke An Arm and a Leg Peek-a-Boo Corpse Grey and Gray Morality The Chick Black and Gray Morality Artistic License – History Red Oni, Blue Oni Earn Your Happy Ending Gratuitous English Time Skip Neck Snap Call-Back Not So Different Music Stories Only in It for the Money Historical Hero Upgrade Credits Gag Broken Bird Deal with the Devil The Cavalry Funny Foreigner Bolivian Army Ending Informed Ability Police Brutality Big Bad Faux Affably Evil As the Good Book Says... Cool Shades Unreliable Narrator Sole Survivor Artistic License – Law Drives Like Crazy Chiaroscuro Four-Temperament Ensemble Manly Tears Biopic Disappeared Dad Becoming the Mask The Quiet One Deconstruction Failed a Spot Check Kick the Dog "Where Are They Now?" Epilogue Too Dumb to Live Would Hit a Girl World of Ham Ship Tease Large Ham Composite Character Blood Knight Dark Reprise Toplessness from the Back Corpsing Thriller Deliberately Monochrome Ambiguously Gay Be Careful What You Wish For Dark Action Girl Dirty Cop Bloodier and Gorier Real Life Madness Mantra Nice Job Fixing It, Villain! Improbable Infant Survival aka: Infant Immortality Lock and Load Montage The Film of the Book No-Sell Chewing the Scenery One-Word Title Lighter and Softer The Great Depression Better to Die than Be Killed Instant Death Bullet Big Fancy House The Place Adult Fear Setting Update A Date with Rosie Palms Crazy-Prepared Male Frontal Nudity Arranged Marriage Kick the Son of a Bitch Naked People Are Funny Sassy Black Woman Bad Boss Silent Movie Hope Spot Meet Cute No Celebrities Were Harmed There Is No Kill Like Overkill Woman Scorned Pre-Asskicking One-Liner My Beloved Smother The Mafia Punny Name Badass Bookworm Red Herring Cruel and Unusual Death Broken Pedestal Bond One-Liner Big "NO!" 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Guy Flashback Stealth Hi/Bye British Films Dressing as the Enemy Our Zombies Are Different You Killed My Father Screw the Rules, I Have Money! Worthy Opponent Stalker with a Crush Pyrrhic Victory Hate Sink Vitriolic Best Buds Gone Horribly Right Badass Boast Revenge Badass Grandpa Word of God Evil Is Petty Japanese Films Fan Disservice Even Evil Has Loved Ones Black Comedy Bound and Gagged Handicapped Badass No Name Given Storming the Castle Nice Hat Ripped from the Headlines Aww, Look! 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Married to the Job Your Cheating Heart Stealth Pun Girl-on-Girl Is Hot Refuge in Audacity Adaptational Heroism Australian Movies Non-Indicative Name May–December Romance Jerkass Spanner in the Works Unspoken Plan Guarantee All There in the Script Shell-Shocked Veteran Neck Lift Alpha Bitch Arc Words Downer Ending A Father to His Men Rule of Three Toilet Humour aka: Toilet Humor Black Dude Dies First Cool Car Early Installment Weirdness Ragtag Bunch of Misfits Genre Savvy Pragmatic Villainy The Dreaded Important Haircut Horror Comedy Film Noir Index I Did What I Had to Do Anyone Can Die Morality Pet Humiliation Conga Never Trust a Trailer aka: Trailers Always Lie Demonic Possession Zombie Stories Butt-Monkey Leitmotif Everyone Calls Him "Barkeep" Pretty Little Headshots Once More, with Clarity! Darker and Edgier Improvised Weapon The Ace Big-Bad Ensemble Action Prologue Riddle for the Ages Action Genre B-Movie Put on a Bus Deadpan Snarker Covers Always Lie Demoted to Extra A Minor Kidroduction Babies Ever After Posthumous Character Insane Troll Logic Stuff Blowing Up Anachronism Stew '80s Hair Would Hurt a Child As Long as It Sounds Foreign Ominous Latin Chanting Loophole Abuse Expository Hairstyle Change Market-Based Title The Bully Stepford Smiler Killed Mid-Sentence Precision F-Strike Gilligan Cut Greater-Scope Villain Does Not Like Shoes Running Gag The Musical Adults Are Useless Extreme Doormat Sealed Evil in a Can Same Language Dub Product Placement Crapsack World Accidental Murder Loads and Loads of Characters A.I. Is a Crapshoot Every Car Is a Pinto Guile Hero Manipulative Bastard Playing Gertrude Fanservice Extra It Will Never Catch On Immune to Bullets Off-into-the-Distance Ending Straight Gay Daddy's Girl One-Man Army Historical In-Joke Unusual Euphemism My God, What Have I Done? Bullying a Dragon Break the Cutie Eye Scream Dark Is Not Evil Curb-Stomp Battle Vomit Indiscretion Shot Black Comedy Rape Mighty Whitey Conspicuous CG Auto Erotica Redshirt Army Bowdlerise Obstructive Bureaucrat Obviously Evil Small Name, Big Ego Yandere Red Right Hand Punch-Clock Villain Adaptational Villainy Maybe Ever After Ungrateful Bastard From Bad to Worse Light Is Not Good Enemy Mine Disguised in Drag All Men Are Perverts Hollywood Law Jerk with a Heart of Gold Maybe Magic, Maybe Mundane Dropped a Bridge on Him Adaptation Expansion All Girls Want Bad Boys Death of a Child Recycled IN SPACE! Air-Vent Passageway Sir Not-Appearing-in-This-Trailer Creepy Child Animal Title Index Laser-Guided Karma In Name Only Rousing Speech Destination Defenestration Love at First Sight Monumental Damage The Ghost Death Glare Hair-Trigger Temper Pet the Dog Breaking the Fourth Wall Does This Remind You of Anything? Fake Shemp Knight Templar Mad Scientist Rewatch Bonus Super Strength Artistic License – Gun Safety Impaled with Extreme Prejudice Your Head A-Splode Costume Porn Advertised Extra Fantastic Racism For Want of a Nail Aluminum Christmas Trees Body Horror Re-Cut The Hero Red Shirt Cassandra Truth NO INDOOR VOICE Dramatic Irony Dogged Nice Guy Curse Cut Short Cool Guns Fatal Family Photo Brother–Sister Incest Alliterative Name Suspiciously Specific Denial Did Not Get the Girl Drill Sergeant Nasty Boom, Headshot! Pragmatic Adaptation Jerkass Has a Point Five-Man Band Laughing Mad Distracted by the Sexy Not Using the "Z" Word Horror Doesn't Settle for Simple Tuesday Attempted Rape Ironic Echo Fat Bastard Hidden Depths Race Against the Clock Spiteful Spit The Cameo Parental Incest The Ditz Up to Eleven Hero of Another Story Those Wacky Nazis The '90s Russian Films Soundtrack Dissonance Well-Intentioned Extremist Took a Level in Badass Politically Incorrect Villain Slashed Throat The Un-Reveal Hooker with a Heart of Gold Darkest Hour From Nobody to Nightmare Defiant to the End Male Gaze Moment Killer Karma Houdini Catapult Nightmare French Films The Smurfette Principle Artistic License – Biology Only Known by Their Nickname Awesome, but Impractical Canadian Movies Naïve Newcomer Why Did It Have to Be Snakes? War Is Hell Make It Look Like an Accident Get Out! 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The Bad Guy Wins Imagine Spot Epic Fail Karmic Death Insistent Terminology Eldritch Abomination The Chessmaster No-Holds-Barred Beatdown Colour-Coded for Your Convenience aka: Color Coded For Your Convenience Defrosting Ice Queen Rule of Symbolism Hair of Gold, Heart of Gold Agony of the Feet Show Within a Show Intrepid Reporter Reality Has No Subtitles Not So Stoic Good Is Not Nice The Stoic Index of Film Westerns Due to the Dead Arson, Murder, and Jaywalking Outrun the Fireball What You Are in the Dark Calling the Old Man Out Narrator Fanservice Sports Stories Age Lift Sequel Escalation Properly Paranoid Call-Forward Bad "Bad Acting" Never My Fault Author Avatar Early-Bird Cameo Race Lift Leaning on the Fourth Wall Big Applesauce Freudian Excuse Intergenerational Friendship The '80s Mama Bear Evil Brit Very Loosely Based on a True Story And the Adventure Continues Death by Adaptation Major Injury Underreaction Bunny-Ears Lawyer Dumb Blonde Batman Gambit Stylistic Suck The Un-Favourite aka: The Un Favorite Badass Longcoat Artistic License – Geography Police are Useless Everyone Has Standards Black Best Friend Public Domain Feature Films Daylight Horror Parental Abandonment Guns Akimbo Despair Event Horizon Kill 'em All Scare Chord Those Two Guys Brutal Honesty Italian Films The Alleged Car The Voiceless Punctuated! 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Pun aka: Incredibly Lame Pun Fainting Rape as Drama Blackmail Sequel Hook Dirty Old Man Offscreen Teleportation The Lost Lenore An Axe to Grind Screw This, I'm Outta Here! Psycho for Hire Meaningful Name Crucified Hero Shot Villain with Good Publicity Not Even Bothering with the Accent Framing Device Depraved Bisexual Ugly Guy, Hot Wife Femme Fatale Love Triangle Face Death with Dignity Decoy Protagonist You Have Outlived Your Usefulness Dark and Troubled Past Only One Name Smoking Is Cool Left the Background Music On Manchild Not What It Looks Like Danny Peary Cult Movies List Sinister Minister Leave the Camera Running Fingore I Want My Beloved to Be Happy Adaptation Name Change Foreshadowing Historical-Domain Character Asshole Victim Comically Missing the Point You Have Failed Me Smug Snake He Who Fights Monsters The Big Guy Broken Aesop Real Life Writes the Plot Adaptational Attractiveness Cool Old Lady Star-Crossed Lovers Mexican Standoff Creator Cameo Obfuscating Stupidity Annoying Younger Sibling Actor Allusion Meaningful Background Event Beta Couple Wicked Cultured Malevolent Masked Men Really Gets Around Cat Scare Red Eyes, Take Warning Mercy Kill Gorn Twist Ending Rasputinian Death Parental Substitute Chuck Cunningham Syndrome Foregone Conclusion Adorkable