Tropescilloscope: Badass Normal

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

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