Tropescilloscope: Dark Action Girl

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

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