Tropescilloscope: Badass Normal

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

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