Tropescilloscope: Implacable Man

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

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