Tropescilloscope: Adaptational Badass

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

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