Tropescilloscope: Adaptational Badass

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

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Taking the Bullet Broken Aesop Freeze-Frame Bonus Hate Sink Why Don't You Just Shoot Him? Alpha Bitch Cowboy Cop Deal with the Devil Silent Movie Artistic License – Geography Humiliation Conga Jerkass Heel–Face Turn Sliding Scale of Idealism vs. Cynicism Woman Scorned Horror Comedy Historical Hero Upgrade Wrong Genre Savvy Show Within a Show Australian Movies Science Fiction Films It Can Think Rule of Three Unusually Uninteresting Sight Real Life Determinator The Alcoholic Informed Ability Parental Substitute Affectionate Parody Gorn Implacable Man You Have Got to Be Kidding Me! Bait-and-Switch folderlabel Nice Hat The Chick Bavarian Fire Drill Girl-on-Girl Is Hot Ax-Crazy Canon Foreigner The Lancer The Alleged Car You Have Failed Me No Celebrities Were Harmed Small Name, Big Ego The Hero Anyone Can Die Chekhov's Gunman Logo Joke Parental Incest Femme Fatale Dark and Troubled Past Roger Ebert: Great Movies List Hero Antagonist Knife Nut Handicapped Badass Fake Shemp Chewing the Scenery Eagleland Ungrateful Bastard Frame-Up Tap on the Head Fatal Flaw Death Seeker Vomit Discretion Shot Slap-Slap-Kiss Ambiguously Gay Large Ham Cruel and Unusual Death From Nobody to Nightmare Male Frontal Nudity Creative Closing Credits Eiffel Tower Effect Impaled with Extreme Prejudice Screw the Money, I Have Rules! Reality Is Unrealistic Character Development Bloodless Carnage Evil Is Hammy Parental Neglect Jitter Cam Pretty in Mink Your Cheating Heart "The Reason You Suck" Speech Lighter and Softer Time Skip timeperiod Every Car Is a Pinto Downer Ending Auto Erotica Men Are the Expendable Gender Shoot the Shaggy Dog As Himself Manly Tears Redemption Equals Death Real Life Writes the Plot Plucky Comic Relief The Musical Obviously Evil Amusing Injuries Last-Name Basis Serial Killer Costume Porn Anti-Villain Vitriolic Best Buds Sci-Fi Horror Expy World of Ham Empathic Environment Screw the Rules, I'm Doing What's Right! Sadistic Choice Bond One-Liner Silence Is Golden One-Word Title Improbable Infant Survival aka: Infant Immortality Offscreen Teleportation Guns Akimbo Idiot Ball Better to Die than Be Killed Foil Black Comedy Developing Doomed Characters The '50s Amoral Attorney Bullying a Dragon Babies Ever After Rated M for Manly The Cavalry Destination Defenestration Hair of Gold, Heart of Gold In the Back Gender Flip Age Lift Christmas Movies Index Martial Arts Movie There Is No Kill Like Overkill Central Theme Retcon Daylight Horror Rule of Cool Big Damn Heroes Chekhov's Gun French Films Eureka Moment I Have Your Wife Mighty Whitey The Great Depression Random Events Plot Protagonist Title Everyone Has Standards Pretty Little Headshots Straight Gay Love Triangle Genre Savvy Happily Married Half the Man He Used to Be Truth in Television Early-Bird Cameo All Just a Dream Toilet Humour aka: Toilet Humor Works Set in World War II Cold-Blooded Torture Anachronism Stew N-Word Privileges Pre-Asskicking One-Liner Only Sane Man Bunny-Ears Lawyer Once More, with Clarity! Broken Pedestal Malevolent Masked Men Heterosexual Life-Partners Big "NO!" Gilligan Cut Married to the Job Unresolved Sexual Tension Adults Are Useless Department of Redundancy Department Historical In-Joke Early Installment Weirdness The Stinger The Sociopath Needs Wiki Magic Love He Who Fights Monsters Corrupt Corporate Executive Homage Big Applesauce Offscreen Moment of Awesome Darkest Hour Good Is Not Nice Shout-Out Boom, Headshot! Race Lift Novelization The Casanova Cool Shades 20 Minutes into the Future Four-Temperament Ensemble Based on a True Story Award-Bait Song Jerkass Has a Point Mr. Fanservice Everyone Calls Him "Barkeep" Posthumous Character Death by Sex Line-of-Sight Name Cat Fight Bar Brawl Sinister Minister Imagine Spot Intrepid Reporter Epic Movie Insistent Terminology Ambiguous Ending Dropped a Bridge on Him Kick the Dog Deconstruction Grey and Gray Morality Artistic License – Military "Well Done, Son!" Guy The Voiceless Blood from the Mouth Sports Stories Disney Villain Death Intergenerational Friendship Product Placement Dull Surprise Action Girl Unusual Euphemism Insult Backfire Rape Is a Special Kind of Evil Body Horror Foregone Conclusion Fate Worse than Death It Will Never Catch On Blackmail Star-Crossed Lovers A Minor Kidroduction An Axe to Grind Extreme Doormat Same Language Dub Knight Templar Rewatch Bonus Ms. Fanservice Double Entendre Bitch in Sheep's Clothing No-Holds-Barred Beatdown Fat Bastard Gone Horribly Right The Reveal Death of a Child Exact Words Very Loosely Based on a True Story Twist Ending Colour-Coded for Your Convenience aka: Color Coded For Your Convenience Non-Indicative Name Artistic License – Law Driven to Suicide Closed Circle Romantic Comedy Evil Cannot Comprehend Good Rule of Symbolism Dying Moment of Awesome From Bad to Worse Never Trust a Trailer Evil Brit Pragmatic Villainy Totally Radical Advertised Extra Recycled IN SPACE! Neck Snap Green-Eyed Monster Superhero Bond Villain Stupidity Training Montage Television Movie Index Playing Gertrude Hope Spot Bowdlerise Card-Carrying Villain You Killed My Father Shown Their Work Freudian Excuse Insane Troll Logic Honor Before Reason Well-Intentioned Extremist Reality Ensues Jump Scare Children Are Innocent Getting Crap Past the Radar Dark Reprise Sir Swears-a-Lot Genre Throwback Hoist by His Own Petard Adaptational Villainy The Cameo Sir Not-Appearing-in-This-Trailer The Stoic Dies Wide Open Villain Protagonist Actor Allusion Arc Words Back from the Dead Meaningful Echo Retirony Trailers Always Spoil Camp Gay Betty and Veronica Took a Level in Jerkass Dirty Coward Celebrity Paradox Suddenly SHOUTING! 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The Stoner Ass Shove German Films Brutal Honesty The '60s Unspoken Plan Guarantee Pre-Mortem One-Liner She Cleans Up Nicely Mercy Kill Black Comedy Rape Shell-Shocked Veteran Naïve Newcomer Comically Missing the Point Fanservice The '70s Fantastic Racism Almost Kiss Bald of Evil Off-into-the-Distance Ending Laser-Guided Karma Mythology Gag Police are Useless Madness Mantra Punny Name Arch-Enemy Fourth Date Marriage Ooh, Me Accent's Slipping Authority Equals Asskicking Hollywood Darkness Slasher Smile Sacrificial Lion I Want My Beloved to Be Happy Despair Event Horizon Armor-Piercing Question As You Know The Starscream Military and Warfare Films Hell Is That Noise Only in It for the Money Face Death with Dignity Villain Opening Scene Karmic Death The Bully Fatal Family Photo Karma Houdini Stylistic Suck Decoy Protagonist Disguised in Drag Mugging the Monster Naked People Are Funny Hair-Trigger Temper Improvised Weapon Wham Line May–December Romance He Knows Too Much The Ghost The Load Combat Pragmatist Not What It Looks Like Sudden Sequel Death Syndrome Psycho for Hire Kick the Son of a Bitch Brainless Beauty Antagonist Title Crazy-Prepared Bi the Way Action Genre Cool Guns Russian Films Leave the Camera Running Badass Bookworm Mr. Exposition The Power of Love Suspiciously Similar Substitute As the Good Book Says... 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Even Bad Men Love Their Mamas Deus ex Machina Death Glare Brick Joke Big-Bad Ensemble No Name Given What Happened to the Mouse? Crapsack World Bare Your Midriff Conspicuous CG The Chessmaster A God Am I Car Fu Rasputinian Death Adaptational Attractiveness All Girls Want Bad Boys Covers Always Lie Corpsing Broken Bird NO INDOOR VOICE Mind Screw Aww, Look! They Really Do Love Each Other A Father to His Men Evil Sounds Deep Heroic Sacrifice Plot Hole Ripped from the Headlines A.I. Is a Crapshoot Evil Plan I'm a Humanitarian Accidental Misnaming Race Against the Clock What You Are in the Dark Bound and Gagged Bottomless Magazines I Need a Freaking Drink Rousing Speech Skewed Priorities Serious Business Captain Obvious Extremely Short Timespan The Vamp More Dakka Fire-Forged Friends Exactly What It Says on the Tin Fantasy Films Here We Go Again! Sealed Evil in a Can Those Two Bad Guys Big Bad Duumvirate Meet Cute Woobie, Destroyer of Worlds Made of Iron Screw This, I'm Outta Here! Maybe Ever After Vacation Films Cool Old Lady Stalker with a Crush Gainax Ending Man on Fire Even Evil Has Standards Heroes Want Redheads Not Using the "Z" Word Grievous Bottley Harm Adaptational Heroism Pay Evil unto Evil Pragmatic Adaptation Not So Different Bloody Hilarious Maybe Magic, Maybe Mundane Police Brutality Does This Remind You of Anything? 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Tranquil Fury Dark Is Not Evil Berserk Button All There in the Manual Smoking Is Cool Hero of Another Story Didn't Think This Through The Un-Reveal Disappeared Dad An Arm and a Leg Aside Glance Ascended Extra Motor Mouth Wounded Gazelle Gambit Catch-Phrase Get Out! Ominous Latin Chanting Author Appeal Foreshadowing Cool Car Scenery Porn Dumb Blonde Country Matters Fish out of Water Creator Cameo Adaptation Expansion Adaptation Dye-Job Due to the Dead Crucified Hero Shot Casting Gag My Greatest Failure Author Avatar And Starring Alliterative Name Unwitting Instigator of Doom Only a Flesh Wound Facial Horror Action Film, Quiet Drama Scene Big Bad Pet the Dog Throwing Your Sword Always Works Abhorrent Admirer Villain Ball Missing Mom Gratuitous English Dramatic Gun Cock Adaptation Name Change No Antagonist Let's Get Dangerous! Artistic License – Gun Safety Nice Guy Arranged Marriage Punctuated! For! Emphasis! Curse Cut Short Romantic False Lead Not So Above It All Politically Incorrect Villain Jerk Jock Ragtag Bunch of Misfits Would Hit a Girl The Smurfette Principle Word of God Morality Pet Deadpan Snarker Determinator aka: The Determinator Drugs Are Bad Blatant Lies Fiery Redhead Sexy Discretion Shot Bittersweet Ending All There in the Script Villain Song Film Series Instant Death Bullet Catapult Nightmare Dutch Angle Bloodier and Gorier Japanese Films Put on a Bus Mexican Standoff Oh, Crap! Evil vs. Evil Abusive Parents Air-Vent Passageway Mistaken for Gay Defrosting Ice Queen Precision F-Strike Slashed Throat Coming-of-Age Story Slasher Movie Asshole Victim Super Strength Papa Wolf Dressing as the Enemy Even Evil Has Loved Ones Mooks Animal Motifs Reasonable Authority Figure My Beloved Smother Loophole Abuse What the Hell, Hero? Worthy Opponent Lock and Load Montage Beauty Is Never Tarnished Biopic Becoming the Mask Together in Death B-Movie Double-Meaning Title Curb-Stomp Battle The Dog Bites Back "Where Are They Now?" Epilogue Neck Lift Deliberately Monochrome Rule of Funny Death by Adaptation Obstructive Bureaucrat Jack Bauer Interrogation Technique O.O.C. Is Serious Business The End... Or Is It? No OSHA Compliance Love at First Sight Funny Foreigner Sanity Slippage Soft Glass Action Prologue Why Did It Have to Be Snakes? Leitmotif The Bad Guy Wins Video Credits Bilingual Bonus Translation Convention Five-Man Band Mood Whiplash Pun aka: Incredibly Lame Pun Anguished Declaration of Love Bolivian Army Ending Bury Your Gays Fanservice Extra Stuff Blowing Up The '90s Chuck Cunningham Syndrome For the Evulz Rape as Drama Parental Abandonment Faux Affably Evil War Is Hell Be Careful What You Wish For Reckless Gun Usage The Place Spared by the Adaptation Soundtrack Dissonance Credits Gag Call-Back Paper-Thin Disguise All Men Are Perverts Canadian Movies The Big Guy All for Nothing Took a Level in Badass One-Man Army The Faceless Light Is Not Good Say My Name Big Brother Instinct Mundane Made Awesome Moment Killer Leaning on the Fourth Wall A Date with Rosie Palms Those Two Guys Stealth Pun Henpecked Husband Contrived Coincidence Imperial Stormtrooper Marksmanship Academy Calling the Old Man Out Villainous Breakdown Attempted Rape The Oner Darker and Edgier Mama Bear Cat Scare Ironic Echo Flipping the Bird Interrupted Suicide Demonic Possession Names to Run Away from Really Fast Overprotective Dad Damsel in Distress Badass Longcoat Those Wacky Nazis In Medias Res Italian Films Eldritch Abomination Index of Film Westerns Jerk with a Heart of Gold Artistic License – Physics Badass Grandpa True Companions