Tropescilloscope: Dark Action Girl

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

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