Tropescilloscope: Dark Action Girl

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

Film Frequency (%) Film Frequency (#)

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