Tropescilloscope: Adaptational Badass

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

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