Tropescilloscope: Implacable Man

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

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