Tropescilloscope: Slasher Smile

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

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