Tropescilloscope: Slasher Smile

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

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