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