Tropescilloscope: Badass Longcoat

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