Tropescilloscope: Slasher Smile

An evil, bloodthirsty grinning Nightmare Face. (read more at tvtropes.org)

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