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)

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