Tropescilloscope: Badass Bookworm

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

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