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