Tropescilloscope: Adaptational Badass

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

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