Tropescilloscope: Badass in a Nice Suit

A badass showing his professionalism by wearing a nice suit. (read more at tvtropes.org)

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