Tropescilloscope: Implacable Man

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

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Is Serious Business Not What It Looks Like Properly Paranoid Extremely Short Timespan German Films Badass Boast Narrator Unreliable Narrator Manly Tears Authority Equals Asskicking Expository Hairstyle Change The Stoic Hong Kong Films Every Car Is a Pinto Demoted to Extra Peek-a-Boo Corpse Affectionate Parody Bloodless Carnage All for Nothing Screw the Rules, I Have Money! 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Is a Crapshoot Country Matters Captain Ersatz Call-Forward The Oner Sci-Fi Horror Adaptational Heroism Genre Throwback The Dragon Four-Temperament Ensemble Ms. Fanservice Jerkass Has a Point Accidental Murder Ragtag Bunch of Misfits Femme Fatale Poor Communication Kills An Arm and a Leg Dark Action Girl And the Adventure Continues He Knows Too Much Villain Opening Scene Final Girl Mad Scientist Romantic Comedy Never My Fault No Celebrities Were Harmed Sacrificial Lion I Have Your Wife The Chessmaster May–December Romance No Name Given Recycled IN SPACE! 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Say My Name Evil Plan Actor Allusion Gorn Take That! Ascended Extra Beta Couple Continuity Nod From Bad to Worse Spell My Name with an "S" Better to Die than Be Killed Casting Gag Hollywood Darkness Mystery and Detective Films Works Set in World War II Man on Fire Ambiguously Gay The Hero Dies Drugs Are Bad An Axe to Grind Card-Carrying Villain Villain Song Badass Grandpa Villain with Good Publicity Artistic License – Physics Made of Iron Rousing Speech Victoria's Secret Compartment Exactly What It Says on the Tin Nothing Is Scarier Broken Aesop Wham Shot Politically Incorrect Villain Double-Meaning Title The End... Or Is It? Tranquil Fury