Tropescilloscope: Bald of Evil

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