Tropescilloscope: Bald of Evil

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