Tropescilloscope: Implacable Man

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

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