Tropescilloscope: Dark Action Girl

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

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