Tropescilloscope: Slasher Smile

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

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