Tropescilloscope: Dark Action Girl

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

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