Tropescilloscope: Implacable Man

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

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Fish out of Water Gory Discretion Shot Death by Adaptation Screw the Rules, I'm Doing What's Right! Superhero Face Death with Dignity Novelization Parental Substitute Major Injury Underreaction Retired Badass Toilet Humour aka: Toilet Humor An Aesop Dirty Coward Blood Knight Bitch in Sheep's Clothing Curse Cut Short No Good Deed Goes Unpunished Naked People Are Funny Guns Akimbo MacGuffin A Date with Rosie Palms Age Lift No OSHA Compliance What Happened to the Mouse? Animated Credits Opening Femme Fatale Shout-Out Alliterative Name Unusual Euphemism Leave the Camera Running Not So Different It's All About Me And Starring Hollywood Law Artistic License – Geography Adaptational Attractiveness Bolivian Army Ending Not So Stoic The Hero Dies Adaptational Badass Lock and Load Montage Redemption Equals Death Determinator aka: The Determinator Psychological Thriller Blatant Lies Bring My Brown Pants And the Adventure Continues Nice Guy Properly Paranoid Based on a True Story Screw the Rules, I Have Money! Shower Scene Groin Attack Same Language Dub Coming-of-Age Story Grievous Bottley Harm Self-Deprecation Meaningful Background Event Author Avatar This Is Gonna Suck Skewed Priorities The '50s A God Am I Bare Your Midriff Implacable Man Show Within a Show Award-Bait Song Made of Explodium Failed a Spot Check Would Hurt a Child Kick the Son of a Bitch Room Full of Crazy Only One Name Leaning on the Fourth Wall Redshirt Army Camp Gay Off with His Head! Villain Opening Scene The Reveal Deal with the Devil Rated M for Manly Evil Is Hammy Slashed Throat Anti-Villain Jerk with a Heart of Gold Despair Event Horizon Not Using the "Z" Word Pretty in Mink The Place Affectionate Parody Daddy's Girl The Smart Guy Actually Pretty Funny Large Ham Evil-Detecting Dog Dressing as the Enemy Good Is Not Nice Really Gets Around Adaptational Heroism Soft Glass Shut Up, Hannibal! 20 Minutes into the Future Foil Posthumous Character Police Brutality All Girls Want Bad Boys Kubrick Stare Getting Crap Past the Radar The Lost Lenore No-Sell The Mole Not Even Bothering with the Accent The Vamp Death of a Child He Knows Too Much Take That! Face–Heel Turn Red Shirt Insistent Terminology Killed Mid-Sentence Say My Name Big Damn Heroes Recap / RiffTrax aka: Riff Trax Movies Fourth Date Marriage Suspiciously Similar Substitute You Have Outlived Your Usefulness Up to Eleven Fainting Manipulative Bastard One-Man Army Broken Pedestal Impaled with Extreme Prejudice Drugs Are Bad Science Fiction Films Brother–Sister Incest Brainless Beauty No Antagonist Agony of the Feet The Starscream Epic Fail Malevolent Masked Men Title Drop Ass Shove Adaptation Name Change Even Evil Has Loved Ones Comically Missing the Point Honor Before Reason Chewing the Scenery In the Back Car Fu Frame-Up Not What It Looks Like One-Word Title Papa Wolf Important Haircut Manic Pixie Dream Girl Evil Counterpart I Want My Beloved to Be Happy Married to the Job Mighty Whitey Bad Boss Screw the Money, I Have Rules! The Alcoholic Here We Go Again! 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Is a Crapshoot Abhorrent Admirer Armor-Piercing Question Italian Films Jump Scare Domestic Abuse Refuge in Audacity Loophole Abuse Truth in Television Very Loosely Based on a True Story Badass Boast Stealth Pun The Dragon Evil Is Petty Wounded Gazelle Gambit Works Set in World War II Scenery Gorn Five-Man Band Deliberately Monochrome Sole Survivor Kill It with Fire Composite Character O.O.C. Is Serious Business Framing Device Gender Flip Evil Cannot Comprehend Good Humiliation Conga Film Noir Index Fingore Villain Protagonist The '80s Does Not Like Shoes Toplessness from the Back Animal Title Index Sci-Fi Horror Serious Business Beta Couple Creator Cameo Cold-Blooded Torture Television Movie Index N-Word Privileges Dirty Cop Hypocritical Humor Improbable Aiming Skills Madness Mantra Big Applesauce The Faceless Parental Neglect Race Against the Clock Off-into-the-Distance Ending Together in Death The Casanova No-Holds-Barred Beatdown Insult Backfire Double Entendre Broken Aesop Accidental Murder Anguished Declaration of Love Sports Stories The Bully Suddenly SHOUTING! 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Epic Movie Evil Sounds Deep Interrupted Suicide Red Right Hand Narrator Adapted Out I Just Shot Marvin in the Face Early-Bird Cameo Homage Precision F-Strike Rape as Drama Developing Doomed Characters Crucified Hero Shot Fan Disservice Motor Mouth British Films Light Is Not Good Broken Bird Soundtrack Dissonance Mundane Made Awesome Does This Remind You of Anything? Neck Snap Country Matters Adults Are Useless Adaptation Dye-Job Sassy Black Woman Male Frontal Nudity Funny Background Event The Load Almost Kiss Bowdlerise Obviously Evil Horror Films Credits Gag Maybe Magic, Maybe Mundane Pyrrhic Victory Half the Man He Used to Be Reckless Gun Usage Mad Scientist Air-Vent Passageway Historical-Domain Character Noodle Incident What the Hell, Hero? An Axe to Grind Screw This, I'm Outta Here! 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Nothing Is Scarier Darkest Hour Overprotective Dad Fat Bastard Wham Line Riddle for the Ages Unspoken Plan Guarantee Amoral Attorney Retcon Fire-Forged Friends Jitter Cam All There in the Script Ugly Guy, Hot Wife Facial Horror Shirtless Scene Obstructive Bureaucrat The Cavalry Psycho for Hire The Quiet One I Did What I Had to Do Missing Mom Chiaroscuro Reasonable Authority Figure I Have Your Wife Gone Horribly Right Vitriolic Best Buds Girl-on-Girl Is Hot Shoot the Shaggy Dog Australian Movies Taking You with Me Even Evil Has Standards Villainous Breakdown Mood Whiplash Rule of Cool Laughing Mad Evil Laugh Pragmatic Adaptation A Minor Kidroduction Stock Footage Never Found the Body One Steve Limit Cruel and Unusual Death Captain Obvious Chekhov's Gun Creepy Child Destination Defenestration Meaningful Echo Bottomless Magazines Meaningful Name Drowning My Sorrows Love at First Sight Serial Killer Those Wacky Nazis Batman Gambit Amusing Injuries Heroic Sacrifice Only in It for the Money Humans Are Bastards Rule of Three Calling the Old Man Out Vacation Films Taking the Bullet Anachronic Order Word of God I Need a Freaking Drink You Have Failed Me Hero of Another Story Stuff Blowing Up Real Life Writes the Plot Corpsing Death Seeker "Shaggy Dog" Story Ghost Fiction Dark Reprise Horror Doesn't Settle for Simple Tuesday Wicked Cultured The Ghost Red Herring Ragtag Bunch of Misfits All for Nothing The Voiceless Mystery and Detective Films Hypocrite Fantasy Films Insane Troll Logic The Atoner Evil Brit No Ending Nice Job Fixing It, Villain! Sudden Sequel Death Syndrome NO INDOOR VOICE Ooh, Me Accent's Slipping Gainax Ending Arson, Murder, and Jaywalking Mr. Fanservice Biopic Pimped-Out Dress Big "NO!" Protagonist Title Creative Closing Credits Zombie Stories Handicapped Badass Flipping the Bird World of Ham Disproportionate Retribution Brutal Honesty The Musical Dogged Nice Guy Dark Is Not Evil The Oner Call-Forward He Who Fights Monsters In Name Only Slap-Slap-Kiss Imperial Stormtrooper Marksmanship Academy Defrosting Ice Queen The Chick Film Noir Spanner in the Works Film Series Never My Fault Bloody Hilarious More Dakka The X of Y Canadian Movies Romantic False Lead Action Genre Belligerent Sexual Tension Adorkable Death Glare Alpha Bitch Department of Redundancy Department Fanservice Extra Hate Sink You Have Got to Be Kidding Me! Disney Villain Death Badass Bookworm The Mafia Idiot Ball Establishing Character Moment She Cleans Up Nicely Mexican Standoff Scare Chord Extremely Short Timespan Artistic License – Law Nice Hat Bittersweet Ending The Stoic Brick Joke Mercy Kill Not Quite Dead Translation Convention Drill Sergeant Nasty Men Are the Expendable Gender Dark and Troubled Past Artistic License – Military Running Gag Slasher Smile Dutch Angle Dark Action Girl Cloudcuckoolander Super Strength For the Evulz Closed Circle Early Installment Weirdness Put on a Bus Kick the Dog Pre-Asskicking One-Liner Playing Gertrude Asshole Victim The Ditz Intrepid Reporter Pragmatic Villainy '80s Hair Bond Villain Stupidity Woman Scorned Plot Hole Laser-Guided Karma Instant Death Bullet It Can Think Oh, Crap! The '70s Sequel Escalation Adaptation Distillation Evil vs. Evil Sadistic Choice Empathic Environment Improbable Infant Survival aka: Infant Immortality Extreme Doormat Hell Is That Noise The Big Guy The Chessmaster Drives Like Crazy Blackmail Pun aka: Incredibly Lame Pun Darker and Edgier Scenery Porn Bavarian Fire Drill Ungrateful Bastard It's Personal Actor Allusion Hope Spot Jack Bauer Interrogation Technique Names to Run Away from Really Fast La Résistance Mythology Gag Politically Incorrect Villain Rewatch Bonus Antagonist Title Beard of Evil Only a Flesh Wound Green-Eyed Monster Pay Evil unto Evil Butt-Monkey Military and Warfare Films Meet Cute Crapsack World War Is Hell Scary Black Man Japanese Films Dropped a Bridge on Him Earn Your Happy Ending Heroes Want Redheads Roger Ebert: Great Movies List Dumb Blonde Back from the Dead Arch-Enemy The Dreaded Colour-Coded for Your Convenience aka: Color Coded For Your Convenience German Films Hollywood Darkness Hoist by His Own Petard Chase Scene Obfuscating Stupidity Big Brother Instinct Decoy Protagonist Hooker with a Heart of Gold Not So Above It All Fate Worse than Death Video Credits Ripped from the Headlines As You Know B-Movie Heterosexual Life-Partners Small Name, Big Ego As Himself Bilingual Bonus Spared by the Adaptation Bad "Bad Acting" Police are Useless Those Two Bad Guys Becoming the Mask Match Cut Spiteful Spit The Bad Guy Wins All Men Are Perverts Break the Cutie Tempting Fate Spiritual Successor Artistic License – History Catapult Nightmare My Greatest Failure Dramatic Gun Cock Race Lift Crazy Jealous Guy Our Zombies Are Different Villain with Good Publicity From Bad to Worse Fiery Redhead Captain Ersatz Heel Realization Token Minority Unreliable Narrator Sinister Minister Berserk Button Neck Lift Anyone Can Die Let's Get Dangerous! The Stoner Bullying a Dragon Re-Cut Straight Gay Badass in a Nice Suit Attempted Rape Villain Song An Arm and a Leg Immune to Bullets For Want of a Nail Death by Sex Corrupt Corporate Executive Genre Throwback The Film of the Book Chuck Cunningham Syndrome Eye Scream Woobie, Destroyer of Worlds Rich Bitch Make It Look Like an Accident Reality Ensues Betty and Veronica Conspicuous CG Product Placement Totally Radical Lighter and Softer Camera Abuse Vomit Discretion Shot Sanity Slippage Fatal Family Photo Woman in White Cool Car Combat Pragmatist Diabolus ex Machina Christmas Movies Index Big Bad Duumvirate Author Appeal Grey and Gray Morality Dual Wielding Why Don't You Just Shoot Him? Big Fancy House Badass Longcoat The '60s Double-Meaning Title Ax-Crazy Never Trust a Trailer aka: Trailers Always Lie Love Triangle The Smurfette Principle Catch-Phrase Big-Bad Ensemble Horror Comedy BFG Took a Level in Badass Genre Savvy Mooks Real Life Vampire Fiction Intergenerational Friendship Bloodier and Gorier You Killed My Father Casting Gag Crouching Moron, Hidden Badass Expository Hairstyle Change Gold Digger Smug Snake Overly Long Gag "The Reason You Suck" Speech Peek-a-Boo Corpse Artistic License – Gun Safety Advertised Extra Punny Name Defiant to the End The Cameo Curb-Stomp Battle Victoria's Secret Compartment Damsel in Distress Time Skip The Ace Demoted to Extra Reality Is Unrealistic Dwindling Party All Just a Dream Kids Are Cruel Sliding Scale of Idealism vs. Cynicism Funny Foreigner Moment Killer Annoying Younger Sibling Guile Hero Worthy Opponent Adult Fear Happily Married Your Head A-Splode Tagline Downer Ending The Alleged Car Sexy Discretion Shot Take a Third Option Have a Gay Old Time Hair of Gold, Heart of Gold Silent Movie Disappeared Dad My Beloved Smother Left the Background Music On Sir Swears-a-Lot Cowboy Cop Everyone Has Standards Wham Shot Pet the Dog Dull Surprise Plucky Comic Relief Eureka Moment Unusually Uninteresting Sight Stylistic Suck Once More, with Clarity! Line-of-Sight Name Heroic BSoD Vomit Indiscretion Shot Danny Peary Cult Movies List Training Montage Random Events Plot Roaring Rampage of Revenge