Tropescilloscope: Action Girl

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

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