Tropescilloscope: Action Girl

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

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