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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Curse Cut Short Costume Porn Serious Business Evil Is Hammy Stylistic Suck Fate Worse than Death Kill It with Fire Only in It for the Money Spared by the Adaptation Historical Hero Upgrade Bowdlerise Creepy Child And the Adventure Continues Kick the Son of a Bitch Adaptational Heroism Music Stories Catch-Phrase Good Is Not Nice Gender Flip Meaningful Background Event Nice Hat The Mafia Last-Name Basis Blood from the Mouth Smoking Is Cool Wham Shot Off-into-the-Distance Ending Authority Equals Asskicking Enemy Mine All Just a Dream Storming the Castle Five-Man Band Obstructive Bureaucrat Mr. Fanservice It's All About Me Non-Indicative Name Framing Device Dramatic Gun Cock Maybe Magic, Maybe Mundane Never Trust a Trailer Butt-Monkey The Bad Guy Wins Index of Film Westerns Shut Up, Hannibal! 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Mooks As You Know Ambiguous Disorder Lighter and Softer Bitch in Sheep's Clothing Missing Mom Parental Incest The Ace Riddle for the Ages Skewed Priorities Instant Death Bullet Small Name, Big Ego Ominous Latin Chanting Dies Wide Open British Films Wham Line Kubrick Stare Worthy Opponent Shirtless Scene Motor Mouth MacGuffin Badass in a Nice Suit Asshole Victim Revenge Scary Black Man The '80s You Have Got to Be Kidding Me! Wicked Cultured folderlabel Call-Forward Laughing Mad Daylight Horror Jack Bauer Interrogation Technique Action Girl O.O.C. Is Serious Business Fire-Forged Friends "Well Done, Son!" 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Cold-Blooded Torture Be Careful What You Wish For Bad Boss Dirty Cop Love at First Sight Heel–Face Turn Camera Abuse Mr. Exposition Mighty Whitey The Alleged Car Crouching Moron, Hidden Badass Homage Death Seeker Title Drop Eiffel Tower Effect Artistic License – Military Accidental Misnaming Contrived Coincidence Very Loosely Based on a True Story One-Man Army Sinister Minister Deadpan Snarker Foil Domestic Abuse The Film of the Book No Name Given Stealth Pun Mind Screw My God, What Have I Done? Dark Reprise Corpsing Karmic Death Death by Sex Dramatic Irony No-Holds-Barred Beatdown Arson, Murder, and Jaywalking Failed a Spot Check Russian Films Gainax Ending Crucified Hero Shot Blonde, Brunette, Redhead Moment Killer Early Installment Weirdness Vomit Discretion Shot Drowning My Sorrows Only One Name No Celebrities Were Harmed Pre-Mortem One-Liner Pretty in Mink German Films Needs Wiki Magic Love Central Theme Red Shirt Stealth Hi/Bye Narrator Big Bad Manly Tears Greater-Scope Villain Twist Ending Aluminum Christmas Trees Sadistic Choice Accidental Murder Coming-of-Age Story Ship Tease Cassandra Truth Artistic License – Physics Character Development Historical In-Joke Advertised Extra Getting Crap Past the Radar Fatal Flaw Slasher Smile The '60s As Long as It Sounds Foreign Older Than They Look Redemption Equals Death Composite Character Breaking the Fourth Wall Man on Fire Mexican Standoff Body Horror Exactly What It Says on the Tin Never Trust a Trailer aka: Trailers Always Lie Random Events Plot The Stoic Star-Crossed Lovers Unwitting Instigator of Doom Product Placement Off with His Head! Psycho for Hire Jump Scare Parental Neglect Meaningful Echo Plucky Comic Relief Put on a Bus Deconstruction Death Glare Pretty Little Headshots Say My Name Tap on the Head She Cleans Up Nicely Jerk Jock May–December Romance Once More, with Clarity! Disney Death Cool Shades Antagonist Title Cat Fight Horror Films Stock Footage Biopic Peek-a-Boo Corpse A.I. Is a Crapshoot Rasputinian Death Expository Hairstyle Change The Casanova Arc Words Retcon Your Head A-Splode Distracted by the Sexy Bavarian Fire Drill Real Life Writes the Plot Comically Missing the Point Groin Attack Action Genre Screw the Rules, I Have Money! 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Left the Background Music On Big Eater Demonic Possession B-Movie Chase Scene Bilingual Bonus Our Vampires Are Different Badass Normal No Good Deed Goes Unpunished Male Gaze Broken Aesop Dutch Angle Cain and Abel The Voiceless Author Appeal French Films Big "NO!" Informed Ability Knife Nut Deus ex Machina Smug Snake Hero of Another Story Mythology Gag All Men Are Perverts Rule of Funny Important Haircut Hong Kong Films Heroic Sacrifice Not Quite Dead Improbable Aiming Skills Happily Married Film Series In Name Only Sealed Evil in a Can Manipulative Bastard Does This Remind You of Anything? 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Rule of Cool Bar Brawl Mama Bear Ugly Guy, Hot Wife Improbable Infant Survival aka: Infant Immortality Big Bad Duumvirate Wrong Genre Savvy Attempted Rape Trailers Always Spoil Chekhov's Skill Made of Explodium Leaning on the Fourth Wall Horror Doesn't Settle for Simple Tuesday Fourth Date Marriage Due to the Dead Danny Peary Cult Movies List Training Montage Mugging the Monster The '50s It Can Think My Beloved Smother Really Gets Around Maybe Ever After Woman Scorned Dwindling Party Hypocrite This Is Gonna Suck Everyone Calls Him "Barkeep" Death by Adaptation Anti-Hero Parental Abandonment Eagleland Unreliable Narrator Action Prologue Lock and Load Montage Re-Cut Australian Movies Suddenly SHOUTING! 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