Tropescilloscope: Slasher Smile

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

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