Tropescilloscope: Handicapped Badass

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