Tropescilloscope: Action Girl

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

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