Tropescilloscope: Badass Bookworm

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

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