Tropescilloscope: Badass in a Nice Suit

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

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