Tropescilloscope: Badass Bookworm

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

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