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)

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