Tropescilloscope: Bitch in Sheep's Clothing

Sweet and harmless on the outside, horrible and cruel on the inside. (read more at tvtropes.org)

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