Tropescilloscope: Dark Action Girl

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

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