Tropescilloscope: Made of Iron

Character is way tougher than possible in Real Life, and there's no fictional reason either. (read more at tvtropes.org)

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