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