Tropescilloscope: Badass Bookworm

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

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