Tropescilloscope: Bald of Evil

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