Tropescilloscope: Badass Normal

He doesn't have powers, but can keep up with those who do. (read more at tvtropes.org)

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