Tropescilloscope: Adaptational Badass

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

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