Tropescilloscope: Implacable Man

A villainous Determinator, with the toughness to back it up. (read more at tvtropes.org)

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