Tropescilloscope: Implacable Man

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

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Is a Crapshoot Ax-Crazy Zombie Stories Psycho for Hire Driven to Suicide Only One Name Unreliable Narrator Heel Realization Deal with the Devil Fire-Forged Friends Camera Abuse Hair-Trigger Temper Fanservice Famous Last Words Car Fu Irony Dark and Troubled Past Woobie, Destroyer of Worlds Groin Attack Eagleland The Faceless Pragmatic Villainy Sole Survivor Karmic Death Becoming the Mask The Mafia The Reveal Hidden Depths Police Brutality Papa Wolf Berserk Button Bolivian Army Ending Cat Scare Last-Name Basis Blonde, Brunette, Redhead '80s Hair Pre-Asskicking One-Liner Double Entendre Homage Adult Fear Pretty Little Headshots Names to Run Away from Really Fast Jerk Jock Stepford Smiler Bunny-Ears Lawyer Drowning My Sorrows Title Drop Fake Shemp Overly Long Gag Shoot the Shaggy Dog The Alcoholic A Father to His Men Tagline Authority Equals Asskicking Obfuscating Stupidity Contrived Coincidence Hair of Gold, Heart of Gold Toplessness from the Back Nice Job Breaking It, Hero! Anti-Hero Hypocrite Wretched Hive Vomit Discretion Shot You Have Outlived Your Usefulness Agony of the Feet Undying Loyalty Love Triangle Spiteful Spit The Smart Guy Wham Line Rewatch Bonus Scary Black Man Grey and Gray Morality Our Zombies Are Different Manchild World of Ham Artistic License – Military Humans Are Bastards Deus ex Machina Unusual Euphemism Woman Scorned MacGuffin Screw the Rules, I'm Doing What's Right! Alpha Bitch Even Bad Men Love Their Mamas Meaningful Background Event Artistic License – Biology Dull Surprise Non-Indicative Name Expy What Happened to the Mouse? The Chick Happily Married Screw the Money, I Have Rules! Crapsack World She Cleans Up Nicely Affably Evil "Where Are They Now?" Epilogue Horror Doesn't Settle for Simple Tuesday Daylight Horror Vampire Fiction Genre Savvy Vacation Films Fan Disservice The Dog Bites Back Took a Level in Badass Retirony Death by Sex Mexican Standoff Fanservice Extra Straight Gay Hollywood Darkness Only Known by Their Nickname Anachronic Order Bad "Bad Acting" Actually Pretty Funny Jitter Cam Green-Eyed Monster Roaring Rampage of Revenge BFG Pet the Dog Would Hurt a Child Everyone Has Standards Fun with Acronyms Beauty Is Never Tarnished Training Montage Film Noir Index Cat Fight Bring My Brown Pants Imagine Spot Obstructive Bureaucrat No-Sell Why Did It Have to Be Snakes? The Ditz A God Am I Race Lift Villain with Good Publicity Stealth Pun Evil Plan Gainax Ending Screw the Rules, I Have Money! 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Ghost Fiction Casting Gag Combat Pragmatist Card-Carrying Villain Married to the Job Adaptational Badass Action Survivor Leave the Camera Running Lighter and Softer Evil Counterpart Nothing Is Scarier As You Know Big Fancy House From Nobody to Nightmare Girl-on-Girl Is Hot Those Wacky Nazis Badass Longcoat Motor Mouth For Want of a Nail Camp Gay Foregone Conclusion Action Film, Quiet Drama Scene He Who Fights Monsters Malevolent Masked Men Ship Tease Sadistic Choice Ripped from the Headlines In Name Only The Remake Hope Spot Film Series Properly Paranoid German Films Drugs Are Bad Creator Cameo Break the Cutie Gory Discretion Shot Film Noir Intrepid Reporter Mood Whiplash Bilingual Bonus All There in the Manual Sir Swears-a-Lot Television Movie Index Tempting Fate Maybe Magic, Maybe Mundane Offscreen Moment of Awesome The Voiceless Naked People Are Funny Insistent Terminology The End... Or Is It? 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