Tropescilloscope: Adaptational Badass

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

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