Tropescilloscope: Dark Action Girl

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

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