Tropescilloscope: Dark Action Girl

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

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