Tropescilloscope: Badass Bookworm

The Smart Guy (or The Evil Genius) + traits of The Big Guy = this trope. (read more at tvtropes.org)

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