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