Tropescilloscope: Handicapped Badass

They may be crippled, but they can still cripple others. (read more at tvtropes.org)

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