Tropescilloscope: Adaptational Badass

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

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