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