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