Tropescilloscope: Adaptational Badass

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

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