Tropescilloscope: Adaptational Badass

The newer incarnation is much more of an action guy. (read more at tvtropes.org)

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