Tropescilloscope: Adaptational Badass

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

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