Tropescilloscope: Action Girl

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

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Anachronic Order Hooker with a Heart of Gold Abhorrent Admirer Children Are Innocent Foregone Conclusion Sexy Discretion Shot The Remake Badass Boast Mundane Made Awesome Getting Crap Past the Radar The Cameo "The Reason You Suck" Speech Adaptational Badass Genre Throwback Dogged Nice Guy Overly Long Gag Even Evil Has Loved Ones Wicked Cultured Adult Fear Pun aka: Incredibly Lame Pun Stalker with a Crush Thriller Dirty Cop Evil Is Petty Kubrick Stare Depraved Bisexual Happily Married Parental Abandonment Foreshadowing Get Out! 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Heel Realization Redshirt Army Running Gag Those Wacky Nazis You Have Failed Me Adults Are Useless Artistic License – Military Diabolus ex Machina Cool Old Lady Blonde, Brunette, Redhead Wham Shot Overprotective Dad The Smurfette Principle Domestic Abuse The Stinger Empathic Environment Combat Pragmatist Big Applesauce Fingore After the End Reckless Gun Usage Faux Affably Evil Fanservice Extra Wrong Genre Savvy Anti-Hero Early-Bird Cameo Four-Temperament Ensemble Defiant to the End Daddy's Girl Super Strength Villain with Good Publicity Does This Remind You of Anything? 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Is Serious Business From Bad to Worse Evil Counterpart Shown Their Work Friend to All Children Imperial Stormtrooper Marksmanship Academy What Happened to the Mouse? Defrosting Ice Queen Missing Mom Not Using the "Z" Word The Un-Reveal Hypocrite Alpha Bitch Reasonable Authority Figure Eyepatch of Power Anguished Declaration of Love Screw the Rules, I Have Money! My God, What Have I Done? 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Stock Footage Match Cut Martial Arts Movie Parental Neglect What the Hell, Hero? 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Real Life For Want of a Nail Downer Ending Soundtrack Dissonance Police are Useless The Dreaded Naïve Newcomer Everyone Has Standards Non-Indicative Name Obfuscating Stupidity Adaptational Heroism Small Name, Big Ego All There in the Manual Revenge Training Montage Sinister Minister Here We Go Again! La Résistance Gainax Ending Properly Paranoid Plot Hole Anyone Can Die Lock and Load Montage Funny Foreigner Never My Fault Horror Comedy Offscreen Teleportation Line-of-Sight Name Noodle Incident Dirty Coward All Just a Dream Car Fu Kill 'em All Enemy Mine The '70s Broken Aesop Bottomless Magazines Storming the Castle Composite Character Authority Equals Asskicking Sci-Fi Horror Reality Has No Subtitles Awesome, but Impractical Retcon Kids Are Cruel Manipulative Bastard '80s Hair Stylistic Suck Ambiguous Disorder Only Known by Their Nickname Gilligan Cut The X of Y The Oner Take That! Manchild I Want My Beloved to Be Happy Heroes Want Redheads Race Against the Clock Sir Not-Appearing-in-This-Trailer Taking You with Me Woobie, Destroyer of Worlds Early Installment Weirdness Loads and Loads of Characters Informed Ability Take a Third Option Darkest Hour Interrupted Suicide Improbable Infant Survival aka: Infant Immortality Sports Stories Older Than They Look Hong Kong Films Wham Line The Cavalry Tranquil Fury Smug Snake The Dragon Retired Badass Developing Doomed Characters Action Genre Eye Scream Mooks Accidental Murder Would Hit a Girl German Films Beta Couple There Is No Kill Like Overkill Creator Cameo Demoted to Extra One Steve Limit Manic Pixie Dream Girl Fatal Flaw Punctuated! For! Emphasis! 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