Tropescilloscope: Dark Action Girl

An evil (or morally dark-shaded grey) Action Girl (read more at tvtropes.org)

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