Tropescilloscope: Slasher Smile

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

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