Tropescilloscope: Handicapped Badass

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

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