Tropescilloscope: Adaptational Badass

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

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