Tropescilloscope: Badass Normal

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

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Guy Re-Cut Central Theme Meaningful Name Kill 'em All Narrator Never Trust a Trailer Jerk with a Heart of Gold Evil Cannot Comprehend Good Awesome, but Impractical Homage Dark Reprise Freeze-Frame Bonus Evil Laugh Aside Glance Maybe Magic, Maybe Mundane Hooker with a Heart of Gold Slasher Smile Camp Gay Contrived Coincidence Suspiciously Specific Denial Police Brutality He Knows Too Much Bad Boss Men Are the Expendable Gender Parental Substitute Wicked Cultured World of Ham Better to Die than Be Killed Evil Is Petty Made of Explodium Fanservice Extra Deliberate Values Dissonance Throwing Your Sword Always Works Ship Tease Car Fu Becoming the Mask Toilet Humour aka: Toilet Humor Gilligan Cut Not Quite Dead Dirty Cop Race Against the Clock Groin Attack Age Lift Drill Sergeant Nasty Woman in White Dutch Angle Mind Screw Horror Doesn't Settle for Simple Tuesday Chuck Cunningham Syndrome No Celebrities Were Harmed Determinator aka: The Determinator Evil-Detecting Dog Funny Foreigner Amusing Injuries The Power of Love Thriller As the Good Book Says... For Want of a Nail Arranged Marriage Red Oni, Blue Oni Action Survivor Cat Fight Skewed Priorities Never My Fault Red Shirt Film Noir Getting Crap Past the Radar Curse Cut Short Agony of the Feet Sassy Black Woman Visual Pun Spared by the Adaptation Papa Wolf Chekhov's Skill Retirony Made of Iron You Have Failed Me Karma Houdini From Nobody to Nightmare Even Evil Has Loved Ones Deal with the Devil Rich Bitch Famous Last Words Informed Ability Body Horror The Alcoholic Bloody Hilarious French Films Butt-Monkey The Stinger Sequel Escalation Overprotective Dad Freudian Excuse Straight Gay Show Within a Show It's All About Me Grievous Bottley Harm Expository Hairstyle Change Paper-Thin Disguise Extremely Short Timespan Darkest Hour Chewing the Scenery Bullying a Dragon I'm a Humanitarian Disappeared Dad Rule of Cool Broken Aesop Knife Nut Crapsack World Extreme Doormat The '70s Dark Action Girl Action Genre Early Installment Weirdness Punctuated! For! Emphasis! Even Evil Has Standards No-Sell Country Matters Humans Are Bastards Ripped from the Headlines Never Trust a Trailer aka: Trailers Always Lie Spanner in the Works Mighty Whitey Villain Song Fan Disservice Married to the Job The Vamp Pragmatic Villainy Only One Name Crazy-Prepared Brick Joke Shout-Out Handicapped Badass Revenge Leitmotif Animated Credits Opening Guns Akimbo Storming the Castle Black Dude Dies First Rule of Funny Not Using the "Z" Word Distracted by the Sexy Dramatic Gun Cock Badass Grandpa Fatal Family Photo Batman Gambit Madness Mantra Maybe Ever After All for Nothing Badass Boast Man on Fire Ax-Crazy Plot Hole Hoist by His Own Petard Neck Lift Casting Gag Interrupted Suicide Smug Snake Big Fancy House Mythology Gag Make It Look Like an Accident Accidental Murder Honor Before Reason And I Must Scream Asshole Victim Rule of Three Truth in Television As You Know Sci-Fi Horror Not So Different Pay Evil unto Evil Death Seeker The Ditz Downer Ending Those Two Bad Guys Malevolent Masked Men Artistic License – Physics Stealth Pun Mad Scientist Auto Erotica Dirty Coward Pragmatic Adaptation Left the Background Music On Eiffel Tower Effect Stepford Smiler Obstructive Bureaucrat Nice Job Fixing It, Villain! The Chick Does Not Like Shoes The Lost Lenore Protagonist Title Wrong Genre Savvy Unreliable Narrator Sliding Scale of Idealism vs. Cynicism Arch-Enemy Alliterative Name Daylight Horror Beard of Evil Celebrity Paradox La Résistance Black and Gray Morality Documentary Stalker with a Crush Bi the Way Sacrificial Lion Attempted Rape One-Man Army Ambiguous Disorder Hair-Trigger Temper Eye Scream Eagleland Let's Get Dangerous! Canon Foreigner Time Skip Jack Bauer Interrogation Technique Self-Deprecation Spiritual Successor Screw the Rules, I'm Doing What's Right! 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Scary Black Man Sudden Sequel Death Syndrome Catapult Nightmare Ambiguous Ending Historical Villain Upgrade The Starscream Gratuitous English Jump Scare In Medias Res Red Herring Disney Villain Death Unusual Euphemism Taking the Bullet Impaled with Extreme Prejudice Irony '80s Hair Author Appeal Take That! 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Camera Abuse Humiliation Conga Naked People Are Funny Badass in a Nice Suit Parental Abandonment Empathic Environment Bittersweet Ending Did Not Get the Girl The Load All Girls Want Bad Boys Beta Couple She's Got Legs Oh, Crap! Suspiciously Similar Substitute Tempting Fate Bottomless Magazines You Have Got to Be Kidding Me! Cold-Blooded Torture Military and Warfare Films Outrun the Fireball Silent Movie Domestic Abuse Hypocritical Humor Manic Pixie Dream Girl Gold Digger Cool Guns Drowning My Sorrows No Antagonist The Great Depression Flashback Action Prologue An Axe to Grind Smoking Is Cool Antagonist Title Drives Like Crazy Took a Level in Badass Italian Films Token Minority Framing Device Tranquil Fury Alas, Poor Villain Creative Closing Credits Disney Death Recycled IN SPACE! Friend to All Children Insistent Terminology The Ghost Drugs Are Bad Happily Married O.O.C. Is Serious Business Last-Name Basis Our Vampires Are Different Black Comedy Reasonable Authority Figure Lighter and Softer Kick the Son of a Bitch Greater-Scope Villain Monumental Damage All There in the Script Blood Knight Blonde, Brunette, Redhead Big Brother Instinct Offscreen Teleportation Captain Ersatz The Film of the Book Only a Flesh Wound Star-Crossed Lovers Fish out of Water Brutal Honesty Anachronic Order Gone Horribly Right Get Out! Knight Templar Evil Sounds Deep Take a Third Option Fate Worse than Death The Smurfette Principle Grey and Gray Morality Blackmail Hope Spot Genre Savvy Failed a Spot Check Stuff Blowing Up Loads and Loads of Characters Adaptation Name Change I Need a Freaking Drink Television Movie Index Undying Loyalty In Name Only Breaking the Fourth Wall Gender Flip Everyone Calls Him "Barkeep" Eldritch Abomination Took a Level in Jerkass Spiteful Spit Shoot the Shaggy Dog Hidden Depths Bilingual Bonus "Where Are They Now?" Epilogue Vampire Fiction The End... Or Is It? In the Back NO INDOOR VOICE Break the Haughty Action Film, Quiet Drama Scene MacGuffin Abusive Parents Green-Eyed Monster BFG Faux Affably Evil Leaning on the Fourth Wall Even Bad Men Love Their Mamas As Long as It Sounds Foreign Screw the Money, I Have Rules! 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Driven to Suicide Your Cheating Heart Here We Go Again! Aluminum Christmas Trees After the End Obviously Evil Romantic False Lead The Dreaded I Did What I Had to Do No OSHA Compliance Canadian Movies Nothing Is Scarier Major Injury Underreaction Sequel Hook Big-Bad Ensemble Big "NO!" Kubrick Stare Gorn Evil Brit Four-Temperament Ensemble There Is No Kill Like Overkill Diabolus ex Machina Rousing Speech Broken Pedestal B-Movie I Have Your Wife Important Haircut Funny Background Event Villain Protagonist The Lancer Anguished Declaration of Love Beauty Is Never Tarnished Stealth Hi/Bye Bar Brawl Enemy Mine Mr. Fanservice Credits Gag The Stoner Market-Based Title Adaptational Attractiveness Aww, Look! They Really Do Love Each Other Badass Bookworm Morality Pet Fanservice Intergenerational Friendship German Films Rasputinian Death Artistic License – Geography The X of Y Australian Movies A Minor Kidroduction Manly Tears Demoted to Extra Shell-Shocked Veteran A.I. Is a Crapshoot Hair of Gold, Heart of Gold Ghost Fiction Soft Glass Actually Pretty Funny Ooh, Me Accent's Slipping Redemption Equals Death Mercy Kill For the Evulz As Himself Ambiguously Gay Despair Event Horizon Mood Whiplash Fire-Forged Friends Bring My Brown Pants Unusually Uninteresting Sight Tap on the Head He Who Fights Monsters The Reveal Artistic License – Gun Safety Expy Match Cut Setting Update Vacation Films Music Stories Heel–Face Turn Cool Old Guy She Cleans Up Nicely Russian Films Colour-Coded for Your Convenience aka: Color Coded For Your Convenience Adults Are Useless What the Hell, Hero? Dull Surprise Department of Redundancy Department Badass Longcoat Hate Sink Dissonant Serenity Henpecked Husband Nice Hat Psycho for Hire Dark Is Not Evil Pun aka: Incredibly Lame Pun Wham Shot Flipping the Bird Black Best Friend Works Set in World War II Dies Wide Open Corpsing It Will Never Catch On Evil Plan Scare Chord Meaningful Background Event Girl-on-Girl Is Hot Rated M for Manly Public Domain Feature Films Chase Scene Sole Survivor Apocalypse How Loophole Abuse Exact Words Riddle for the Ages The Hero Break the Cutie Offscreen Moment of Awesome Bavarian Fire Drill Product Placement Parental Neglect Belligerent Sexual Tension Nice Job Breaking It, Hero! Superhero The Big Guy Genre Throwback Frame-Up Shown Their Work Motor Mouth Costume Porn The '90s It Can Think Establishing Character Moment Novelization Meaningful Echo Sexy Discretion Shot Mundane Made Awesome Up to Eleven Stock Footage Cloudcuckoolander Vomit Discretion Shot Would Hurt a Child Bloodless Carnage Line-of-Sight Name Jitter Cam One Steve Limit Decoy Protagonist The Mole Ms. Fanservice Dirty Old Man The Bully Disproportionate Retribution Off-into-the-Distance Ending Pretty in Mink Eureka Moment Captain Obvious My God, What Have I Done? Pimped-Out Dress One-Word Title Dramedy Police are Useless Plucky Comic Relief Adaptational Badass Retired Badass Taking You with Me Not What It Looks Like The Dog Bites Back Calling the Old Man Out Scenery Porn Older Than They Look Big Applesauce Stylistic Suck Screw This, I'm Outta Here! Big Bad Slap-Slap-Kiss Training Montage Deadpan Snarker Character Development Dressing as the Enemy