Tropescilloscope: Bald of Evil

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