Tropescilloscope: Action Girl

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

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