Tropescilloscope: Implacable Man

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

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