Tropescilloscope: Determinator

Never. Gives. UP. For anything. (read more at tvtropes.org)

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