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