Tropescilloscope: Badass Bookworm

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

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