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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Instant Death Bullet Screw the Rules, I Have Money! The Cameo Stealth Hi/Bye Those Two Bad Guys Fanservice Canadian Movies Adaptational Heroism Greater-Scope Villain Composite Character Retirony No Good Deed Goes Unpunished Slashed Throat Star-Crossed Lovers Ax-Crazy The Voiceless Shirtless Scene Early-Bird Cameo Visual Pun Meaningful Name Rape Is a Special Kind of Evil The Un-Favourite aka: The Un Favorite Let's Get Dangerous! 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Creator Cameo Soundtrack Dissonance Car Fu Chuck Cunningham Syndrome Wham Shot Ambiguous Disorder Character Development The Hero Dies Adaptation Name Change Badass Longcoat Immune to Bullets Pragmatic Adaptation Faking the Dead Villainous Breakdown Film Noir One-Man Army Butt-Monkey Author Appeal Only One Name Determinator aka: The Determinator Ass Shove Bad Boss Exactly What It Says on the Tin Beauty Is Never Tarnished Bavarian Fire Drill Redshirt Army Names to Run Away from Really Fast Ambiguous Ending Apocalypse How Everyone Calls Him "Barkeep" Curb-Stomp Battle Our Zombies Are Different Rich Bitch Paper-Thin Disguise Evil Sounds Deep Body Horror Cassandra Truth Those Wacky Nazis Creepy Child Grievous Bottley Harm Arranged Marriage It Will Never Catch On Villain Protagonist Failed a Spot Check O.O.C. Is Serious Business The Power of Love Together in Death What the Hell, Hero? 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They Really Do Love Each Other Cruel and Unusual Death One Steve Limit You Have Failed Me Unspoken Plan Guarantee Fire-Forged Friends Death Seeker The Stoic Refuge in Audacity An Axe to Grind Crazy-Prepared Silent Movie Children Are Innocent The Lost Lenore The Smart Guy Vomit Discretion Shot Bland-Name Product Abhorrent Admirer Blood from the Mouth German Films Irony Even Evil Has Loved Ones Sacrificial Lion Military and Warfare Films Badass Boast Taking You with Me Based on a True Story Setting Update Catapult Nightmare Mooks Stealth Pun Never Trust a Trailer The Stinger Annoying Younger Sibling Twist Ending Dramatic Irony Eagleland Evil vs. Evil Our Vampires Are Different Demoted to Extra Monumental Damage Mercy Kill Dumb Blonde Black and Gray Morality Nothing Is Scarier Historical In-Joke Creative Closing Credits Large Ham Ironic Echo Authority Equals Asskicking Works Set in World War II Bloodier and Gorier Framing Device And the Adventure Continues Reality Has No Subtitles Nice Job Breaking It, Hero! 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Death Glare All for Nothing Serious Business She's Got Legs Ominous Latin Chanting La Résistance Adults Are Useless Artistic License – Geography Historical Villain Upgrade Villain with Good Publicity Fourth Date Marriage Call-Back Sequel Hook Manipulative Bastard The Faceless And Starring Sir Swears-a-Lot Action Survivor Sassy Black Woman Accidental Misnaming Bottomless Magazines Evil Counterpart Ambiguously Gay Better to Die than Be Killed Science Fiction Films Mood Whiplash Does Not Like Shoes The Oner Rasputinian Death Artistic License – Military Beware the Nice Ones Parental Neglect Break the Cutie Anti-Villain Knight Templar Girl-on-Girl Is Hot Jerkass Has a Point Here We Go Again! Thriller Overprotective Dad "Well Done, Son!" Guy Real Life Writes the Plot Shoot the Shaggy Dog Retcon Determinator Broken Aesop Expository Hairstyle Change Unusually Uninteresting Sight Aluminum Christmas Trees Politically Incorrect Villain Horror Comedy Imagine Spot Groin Attack Biopic The Cavalry Big Damn Heroes Batman Gambit Alliterative Name Amusing Injuries Re-Cut "The Reason You Suck" Speech Meaningful Background Event World of Ham Broken Pedestal Hair-Trigger Temper Loads and Loads of Characters Moment Killer Bad "Bad Acting" Soft Glass Parental Substitute Love Triangle Death by Irony Say My Name Anachronic Order Adaptation Distillation Older Than They Look No-Holds-Barred Beatdown Alpha Bitch Disproportionate Retribution Defrosting Ice Queen Darker and Edgier Abusive Parents British Films Punny Name Adaptation Expansion Disappeared Dad The Sociopath Plucky Comic Relief Truth in Television Room Full of Crazy Improvised Weapon Meaningful Echo Lampshade Hanging No Antagonist Casting Gag The End... Or Is It? Jerk with a Heart of Gold Action Prologue I Just Shot Marvin in the Face Dropped a Bridge on Him Age Lift My Beloved Smother The Un-Reveal This Is Gonna Suck Chase Scene Offscreen Teleportation Leitmotif Pretty in Mink Fun with Acronyms Up to Eleven Central Theme Shipper on Deck Adaptational Attractiveness Worthy Opponent Action Genre Slasher Smile Love at First Sight The Dragon Logo Joke Very Loosely Based on a True Story An Arm and a Leg Men Are the Expendable Gender Time Skip Ungrateful Bastard Captain Ersatz Eyepatch of Power Evil Cannot Comprehend Good Major Injury Underreaction Canon Foreigner Straight Gay Funny Background Event Darkest Hour Genre Shift Crucified Hero Shot Small Name, Big Ego Narrator "Awesome McCool" Name Poor Communication Kills Brother–Sister Incest Evil Is Hammy Maybe Magic, Maybe Mundane Suspiciously Specific Denial Tagline Arson, Murder, and Jaywalking Every Car Is a Pinto Animated Credits Opening Camp Gay Jerkass Celebrity Paradox Rewatch Bonus Ugly Guy, Hot Wife Costume Porn Roaring Rampage of Revenge Brick Joke Gone Horribly Right Eye Scream Kids Are Cruel Screw the Money, I Have Rules! 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Corrupt Corporate Executive Disguised in Drag Red Oni, Blue Oni From Bad to Worse Bunny-Ears Lawyer I'm a Humanitarian Daddy's Girl Grey and Gray Morality Never My Fault Undying Loyalty Laughing Mad Leaning on the Fourth Wall Index of Film Westerns Big-Bad Ensemble Artistic License – History Asshole Victim It Can Think Pimped-Out Dress Not Quite Dead Protagonist Title Pun aka: Incredibly Lame Pun Gold Digger Heroes Want Redheads Bilingual Bonus Insane Troll Logic Anguished Declaration of Love Defiant to the End You Have Outlived Your Usefulness Black Comedy Final Girl folderlabel The Quiet One Guile Hero Suddenly SHOUTING! Leave the Camera Running Facial Horror Novelization Show Within a Show Vacation Films Establishing Character Moment Dressing as the Enemy Adaptational Villainy Killed Mid-Sentence Really Gets Around Dramatic Gun Cock Properly Paranoid Affectionate Parody Evil Laugh Henpecked Husband Even Evil Has Standards Toilet Humour aka: Toilet Humor Artistic License – Gun Safety Gory Discretion Shot Dwindling Party Mystery and Detective Films Hong Kong Films Music Stories Due to the Dead Extreme Doormat Noodle Incident "Where Are They Now?" Epilogue Malevolent Masked Men Unwitting Instigator of Doom Adaptation Dye-Job Pet the Dog Horror Films Comically Missing the Point Super Strength She Cleans Up Nicely The Load Dark Reprise Aside Glance I Need a Freaking Drink Sudden Sequel Death Syndrome No Ending Same Language Dub Martial Arts Movie The Chessmaster Adorkable Arch-Enemy Continuity Nod Your Cheating Heart True Companions Faux Affably Evil Not So Stoic The Mole Did Not Get the Girl Token Minority Scenery Porn Fake Shemp Papa Wolf 20 Minutes into the Future Big Applesauce Almost Kiss Sequel Escalation Laser-Guided Karma Camera Abuse Bury Your Gays Hypocrite The Atoner Self-Deprecation Domestic Abuse Even Bad Men Love Their Mamas The X of Y Documentary Double Entendre Wretched Hive May–December Romance Real Life Have a Gay Old Time Big Eater Sanity Slippage Animal Motifs Hypocritical Humor Revenge From Nobody to Nightmare Bound and Gagged Agony of the Feet Hollywood Law A Father to His Men Stock Footage Not So Above It All Ooh, Me Accent's Slipping Gender Flip What Happened to the Mouse? Death of a Child Woobie, Destroyer of Worlds Artistic License – Physics The '50s Recycled IN SPACE! Smug Snake Betty and Veronica Sinister Minister Psycho for Hire Death by Adaptation Big "NO!" Mexican Standoff Mugging the Monster Everyone Has Standards Cool Car Pragmatic Villainy Chekhov's Skill As the Good Book Says... Evil-Detecting Dog Rule of Cool The '70s The Dreaded Punctuated! For! Emphasis! Red Herring Ghost Fiction Advertised Extra Four-Temperament Ensemble Naked People Are Funny Dissonant Serenity Pre-Asskicking One-Liner Gorn Mama Bear Mad Scientist Kubrick Stare Beard of Evil Drill Sergeant Nasty Missing Mom Deconstruction Not Even Bothering with the Accent Disney Villain Death The Stoner It's All About Me Vomit Indiscretion Shot Bond One-Liner Mind Screw Crapsack World Shower Scene As Himself There Is No Kill Like Overkill Beta Couple Why Did It Have to Be Snakes? The Great Depression