Tropescilloscope: Slasher Smile

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

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