Tropescilloscope: Badass Bookworm

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

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