Tropescilloscope: Dark Action Girl

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

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