Tropescilloscope: Action Girl

A Badass who just happens to be a girl. (read more at tvtropes.org)

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