Tropescilloscope: Action Girl

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

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