Tropescilloscope: Let's Get Dangerous!

The moment a bumbling or comedic Super Zero stops being one and demonstrates the magnitude of their true hyper-competence. (read more at tvtropes.org)

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Gender Flip Laughing Mad Dutch Angle Public Domain Feature Films Accidental Murder Abhorrent Admirer Calling the Old Man Out Villain Opening Scene Deal with the Devil I'm a Humanitarian Let's Get Dangerous! The Stinger Imagine Spot Agony of the Feet And the Adventure Continues Say My Name Improbable Weapon User Bavarian Fire Drill Unusually Uninteresting Sight Girl-on-Girl Is Hot Slasher Smile Ass Shove Whole Plot Reference Reckless Gun Usage Red Oni, Blue Oni O.O.C. Is Serious Business Historical Villain Upgrade Depraved Bisexual Jerk Jock Fat Bastard I Need a Freaking Drink Missing Mom Not So Above It All Stalker with a Crush Unusual Euphemism Karma Houdini Adaptation Expansion Author Appeal Bland-Name Product Big Damn Heroes Hair of Gold, Heart of Gold Call-Forward Precision F-Strike All for Nothing "The Reason You Suck" Speech Psychopathic Manchild NO INDOOR VOICE Final Girl Failed a Spot Check Artistic License – Geography Credits Gag Sliding Scale of Idealism vs. Cynicism You Have Failed Me Arranged Marriage Adaptational Badass Despair Event Horizon Bring My Brown Pants Expy Totally Radical Plot Hole Dark Reprise Improbable Infant Survival aka: Infant Immortality Adapted Out Loophole Abuse Manly Tears Annoying Younger Sibling Crazy Jealous Guy Alliterative Name How We Got Here Playing Gertrude Only a Flesh Wound Villain with Good Publicity Spared by the Adaptation Adaptation Dye-Job Cowboy Cop Body Horror Not Even Bothering with the Accent He Knows Too Much Big Bad Throwing Your Sword Always Works Car Fu Death by Irony Anachronic Order Took a Level in Jerkass Extreme Doormat Hollywood Law Obstructive Bureaucrat Parental Substitute Abusive Parents Nice Job Fixing It, Villain! Shipper on Deck It's All About Me Tranquil Fury Bond One-Liner Big Applesauce Pimped-Out Dress Russian Films All There in the Script Authority Equals Asskicking Retired Badass As the Good Book Says... Demoted to Extra Video Credits Non-Indicative Name Wounded Gazelle Gambit Does This Remind You of Anything? Sinister Minister Decoy Protagonist Bond Villain Stupidity Vampire Fiction Death of a Child Bottomless Magazines Even Evil Has Standards Slasher Movie The Casanova Shoot the Shaggy Dog Killed Mid-Sentence Batman Gambit Redemption Equals Death Exactly What It Says on the Tin I Want My Beloved to Be Happy Karmic Death Works Set in World War II Protagonist Title Determinator aka: The Determinator Drives Like Crazy The Dog Bites Back Brainless Beauty Show Within a Show The Power of Love Amusing Injuries She Cleans Up Nicely Outrun the Fireball Wretched Hive Bilingual Bonus Aww, Look! They Really Do Love Each Other Not Using the "Z" Word Horror Films Belligerent Sexual Tension Smug Snake Dull Surprise Animal Title Index It Will Never Catch On Face Death with Dignity Made of Explodium Scare Chord Token Minority What You Are in the Dark Cool Old Guy Tagline Artistic License – Military Mooks Sports Stories Fainting Cool Shades Needs Wiki Magic Love Face–Heel Turn Ms. Fanservice Bowdlerise Costume Porn Eye Scream The Brute Only Known by Their Nickname Real Life Parental Abandonment Scenery Gorn From Bad to Worse Sealed Evil in a Can Lighter and Softer Naked People Are Funny It Can Think Faux Affably Evil The Vamp Storming the Castle Actor Allusion Adaptational Villainy Four-Temperament Ensemble An Axe to Grind Chewing the Scenery Roger Ebert: Great Movies List Madness Mantra Wrong Genre Savvy The '90s Shut Up, Hannibal! Even Evil Has Loved Ones Honor Before Reason Canadian Movies Stealth Pun Your Cheating Heart Hair-Trigger Temper Villain Protagonist Stock Footage The Mole Peek-a-Boo Corpse Creepy Child Hero of Another Story Homage Unwitting Instigator of Doom Author Avatar Vomit Indiscretion Shot Rich Bitch Historical-Domain Character The Lancer Fan Disservice Card-Carrying Villain Ripped from the Headlines Badass Grandpa "Shaggy Dog" Story Early Installment Weirdness Grey and Gray Morality True Companions Broken Bird One-Word Title Love at First Sight The Hero Disproportionate Retribution Deliberately Monochrome Badass Longcoat Adult Fear Plucky Comic Relief Italian Films My Beloved Smother Morality Pet Based on a True Story Auto Erotica Good Is Not Nice Friend to All Children Rasputinian Death Guile Hero Film Series Black Best Friend Evil Counterpart From Nobody to Nightmare Daddy's Girl Cool Old Lady Ascended Extra Insult Backfire Pet the Dog Gold Digger Worthy Opponent Evil vs. Evil Cool Guns Almost Kiss One-Man Army Fun with Acronyms Fire-Forged Friends Sexy Discretion Shot The Cameo The End... Or Is It? The Ace Beware the Nice Ones Destination Defenestration Captain Ersatz "Well Done, Son!" 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Dressing as the Enemy Flipping the Bird Groin Attack Beauty Is Never Tarnished Heroes Want Redheads Time Skip Faking the Dead Freeze-Frame Bonus Heroic Sacrifice Bullying a Dragon Rape as Drama Badass in a Nice Suit The Hero Dies Vacation Films Market-Based Title Super Strength Bound and Gagged Rousing Speech Heterosexual Life-Partners Kill 'em All Cat Fight Corpsing Have a Gay Old Time Eldritch Abomination Disney Death Artistic License – Law Index of Film Westerns Age Lift Jitter Cam Woman in White Epic Fail Bare Your Midriff Everyone Has Standards Names to Run Away from Really Fast Rape Is a Special Kind of Evil MacGuffin Scenery Porn Fantasy Films Aluminum Christmas Trees Papa Wolf The Un-Reveal Amoral Attorney Mr. Exposition Fake Shemp German Films Due to the Dead Too Dumb to Live Crouching Moron, Hidden Badass Conspicuous CG Psycho for Hire Defrosting Ice Queen The Alleged Car The Smurfette Principle Action Film, Quiet Drama Scene Maybe Magic, Maybe Mundane Back from the Dead Celebrity Paradox Character Development A God Am I Blackmail Eagleland Downer Ending Antagonist Title Children Are Innocent Bar Brawl Mundane Made Awesome In Medias Res Slashed Throat Break the Haughty Word of God The Sociopath Adults Are Useless Ambiguously Gay Spiteful Spit Break the Cutie Chiaroscuro Villain Song Gone Horribly Right Manchild Corrupt Corporate Executive Stuff Blowing Up Hell Is That Noise La Résistance Older Than They Look Kids Are Cruel Irony Fourth Date Marriage The Alcoholic Stylistic Suck The Reveal Chekhov's Gun Badass Normal Ironic Echo Cool Car Funny Foreigner What Happened to the Mouse? 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Evil Sounds Deep Police Brutality Neck Snap Humiliation Conga Male Gaze Kubrick Stare Dramatic Gun Cock The Bully Toilet Humour aka: Toilet Humor For the Evulz Reality Ensues Be Careful What You Wish For Cassandra Truth Half the Man He Used to Be The Stoner No Antagonist Punny Name Spanner in the Works Toplessness from the Back Fiery Redhead Mad Scientist Product Placement Married to the Job Broken Pedestal The '50s Reality Has No Subtitles Mexican Standoff Intrepid Reporter Affably Evil Adaptational Heroism 20 Minutes into the Future BFG Ambiguous Disorder Hidden Depths Properly Paranoid Setting Update Artistic License – History Asshole Victim Deliberate Values Dissonance Death by Adaptation You Have Outlived Your Usefulness Bad "Bad Acting" Mystery and Detective Films Demonic Possession Drugs Are Bad Shower Scene Extremely Short Timespan Shout-Out World of Ham More Dakka Trailers Always Spoil Bittersweet Ending Truth in Television Chekhov's Skill folderlabel Establishing Character Moment Death Seeker Superhero Race Lift Pay Evil unto Evil The Voiceless Large Ham Babies Ever After And I Must Scream Nice Job Breaking It, Hero! 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Visual Pun Sole Survivor The X of Y Rule of Symbolism Twist Ending Sequel Escalation Kick the Son of a Bitch Death by Sex Alas, Poor Villain Continuity Nod Adaptation Distillation Suddenly SHOUTING! Never Found the Body Rule of Three Deadpan Snarker Disney Villain Death Creator Cameo Red Shirt An Aesop Beard of Evil My Greatest Failure Combat Pragmatist Fish out of Water Hypocritical Humor Romantic False Lead The Chessmaster Disappeared Dad The Lost Lenore Everyone Calls Him "Barkeep" A Minor Kidroduction Love Triangle Flashback Anguished Declaration of Love The Un-Favourite aka: The Un Favorite Bury Your Gays Immune to Bullets No OSHA Compliance Breaking the Fourth Wall Exact Words Woobie, Destroyer of Worlds Blood Knight Artistic License – Physics Expository Hairstyle Change Danny Peary Cult Movies List Impaled with Extreme Prejudice Villainous Breakdown Defiant to the End Loads and Loads of Characters Punctuated! For! Emphasis! Taking You with Me No-Holds-Barred Beatdown Wicked Cultured Documentary Catapult Nightmare Take That! Nice Hat Dirty Coward Double-Meaning Title Historical Hero Upgrade Action Prologue Awesome, but Impractical Pretty in Mink No Ending Never My Fault Cat Scare Light Is Not Good Off with His Head! Action Survivor Apocalypse How Small Name, Big Ego The Starscream Your Head A-Splode Rewatch Bonus Dropped a Bridge on Him Unresolved Sexual Tension Dwindling Party Evil Cannot Comprehend Good Running Gag Evil Is Petty Manipulative Bastard Heel–Face Turn Improbable Aiming Skills Wham Shot Screw the Rules, I'm Doing What's Right! Crucified Hero Shot Betty and Veronica Logo Joke Police are Useless Dual Wielding Red Herring Diabolus ex Machina Vitriolic Best Buds Redshirt Army Reality Is Unrealistic Manic Pixie Dream Girl Bi the Way Bitch in Sheep's Clothing Actually Pretty Funny Screw the Money, I Have Rules! Why Did It Have to Be Snakes? Double Entendre Overly Long Gag In Name Only Red Eyes, Take Warning Eiffel Tower Effect A Date with Rosie Palms Paper-Thin Disguise Foreshadowing Dumb Blonde Zombie Stories Evil Plan Big Brother Instinct Evil Brit Horror Doesn't Settle for Simple Tuesday Heel Realization After the End War Is Hell Moment Killer Star-Crossed Lovers Not So Stoic Genre Throwback Mythology Gag One Steve Limit Fanservice Extra Victoria's Secret Compartment Pyrrhic Victory You Have Got to Be Kidding Me! Grievous Bottley Harm Sir Not-Appearing-in-This-Trailer Real Life Writes the Plot Only in It for the Money Race Against the Clock Pre-Mortem One-Liner The Dreaded Obviously Evil The '60s What the Hell, Hero? Badass Boast Action Genre A.I. Is a Crapshoot Film Noir An Arm and a Leg Gory Discretion Shot Eyepatch of Power Alpha Bitch Damsel in Distress Camp Gay Leaning on the Fourth Wall Psychological Thriller Epic Movie The Atoner