Tropescilloscope: Badass Bookworm

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

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