Tropescilloscope: Dark Action Girl

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

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