Tropescilloscope: Action Girl

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

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