Tropescilloscope: Badass Bookworm

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

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