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