Tropescilloscope: Badass Bookworm

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

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