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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Mistaken for Gay Put on a Bus Deal with the Devil Broken Pedestal The Film of the Book Unusually Uninteresting Sight Sci-Fi Horror The Hero Dies Rule of Symbolism Mr. Fanservice Love at First Sight Monumental Damage No Name Given Neck Lift Rasputinian Death Darkest Hour Karma Houdini No-Holds-Barred Beatdown Adaptational Heroism Men Are the Expendable Gender Ugly Guy, Hot Wife She Cleans Up Nicely I Have Your Wife Advertised Extra Would Hurt a Child Kick the Son of a Bitch Crazy-Prepared Self-Deprecation Cain and Abel Truth in Television Pretty Little Headshots Time Skip No Celebrities Were Harmed A God Am I Hollywood Law Manchild Hooker with a Heart of Gold Mighty Whitey Early Installment Weirdness B-Movie You Have Got to Be Kidding Me! Deliberate Values Dissonance Intrepid Reporter Dramatic Irony Pragmatic Adaptation Never Trust a Trailer Drives Like Crazy Broken Aesop Kubrick Stare Happily Married Woobie, Destroyer of Worlds More Dakka Jack Bauer Interrogation Technique This Is Gonna Suck Extreme Doormat Curse Cut Short Suddenly SHOUTING! Author Appeal Totally Radical Major Injury Underreaction Malevolent Masked Men Historical Villain Upgrade It's Personal The Big Guy Anachronic Order Names to Run Away from Really Fast Annoying Younger Sibling Reality Has No Subtitles Authority Equals Asskicking Lampshade Hanging Smoking Is Cool Stealth Hi/Bye Italian Films All Just a Dream Cold-Blooded Torture Failed a Spot Check Actor Allusion Alpha Bitch Body Horror Translation Convention Aww, Look! They Really Do Love Each Other Loophole Abuse Took a Level in Jerkass Author Avatar I Just Shot Marvin in the Face Action Girl Fainting Adaptation Name Change Gory Discretion Shot Hero of Another Story Important Haircut Butt-Monkey Call-Back Very Loosely Based on a True Story Bait-and-Switch Properly Paranoid Smug Snake No Good Deed Goes Unpunished Roaring Rampage of Revenge Fat Bastard In Medias Res Crapsack World Morality Pet Pre-Asskicking One-Liner Crouching Moron, Hidden Badass Overprotective Dad Race Against the Clock Chewing the Scenery Dirty Old Man Redemption Equals Death "Awesome McCool" Name Fanservice Screw the Rules, I Have Money! The Quiet One Adaptational Badass The End... Or Is It? 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Anachronism Stew It Can Think Sliding Scale of Idealism vs. Cynicism Improbable Weapon User Nice Guy timeperiod Bad "Bad Acting" Bland-Name Product Red Oni, Blue Oni What You Are in the Dark Action Film, Quiet Drama Scene Twist Ending Rated M for Manly Stepford Smiler Toplessness from the Back No Ending Reality Ensues Bald of Evil Fate Worse than Death Catapult Nightmare Papa Wolf Guns Akimbo The Casanova Funny Background Event The Power of Love Nice Hat Large Ham He Who Fights Monsters Off-into-the-Distance Ending Undying Loyalty Tranquil Fury Manic Pixie Dream Girl Amusing Injuries Hell Is That Noise Not Using the "Z" Word Silence Is Golden Show Within a Show Meaningful Background Event Male Frontal Nudity The Un-Favourite aka: The Un Favorite Adult Fear Cloudcuckoolander My Beloved Smother Pay Evil unto Evil Motor Mouth Chekhov's Gunman Your Head A-Splode Foreshadowing Abusive Parents Bloody Hilarious Parental Neglect All There in the Manual No Antagonist Too Dumb to Live Bullying a Dragon Irony Chiaroscuro Curb-Stomp Battle Mind Screw Novelization Loads and Loads of Characters Grievous Bottley Harm Music Stories Apocalypse How Not Quite Dead The '50s Badass Grandpa Hair of Gold, Heart of Gold Cruel and Unusual Death Blatant Lies Drugs Are Bad Real Life Killed Mid-Sentence Expository Hairstyle Change Star-Crossed Lovers 20 Minutes into the Future Crazy Jealous Guy Hero Antagonist Married to the Job Villain Ball Riddle for the Ages Sports Stories Everyone Calls Him "Barkeep" Hypocrite Idiot Ball Destination Defenestration Lock and Load Montage Historical In-Joke Hoist by His Own Petard Contrived Coincidence The Great Depression Artistic License – Military Blonde, Brunette, Redhead Genre Throwback O.O.C. Is Serious Business Greater-Scope Villain The Remake The Stinger Driven to Suicide Drowning My Sorrows Kill 'em All Title Drop Double-Meaning Title Not Even Bothering with the Accent Bilingual Bonus Poor Communication Kills Bavarian Fire Drill Cool Old Guy Humans Are Bastards Shell-Shocked Veteran Bloodless Carnage Cat Scare Only Known by Their Nickname Real Life Writes the Plot Fake Shemp The Atoner Expy Make It Look Like an Accident Empathic Environment Stock Footage Superhero Television Movie Index Paper-Thin Disguise Hong Kong Films Eyepatch of Power Bring My Brown Pants Offscreen Teleportation Australian Movies Fire-Forged Friends Horror Films Meet Cute Corpsing Deadpan Snarker Why Did It Have to Be Snakes? Foregone Conclusion The Cavalry Decoy Protagonist Exact Words "Where Are They Now?" 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Is a Crapshoot Arc Words The X of Y Our Zombies Are Different Token Minority Those Two Guys British Films Even Evil Has Loved Ones Sequel Escalation NO INDOOR VOICE Sudden Sequel Death Syndrome Evil Laugh Heel–Face Turn Betty and Veronica Slasher Smile From Bad to Worse Non-Indicative Name Animated Credits Opening Fantasy Films Random Events Plot Only in It for the Money In Name Only One-Word Title The Dog Bites Back Camera Abuse Never Found the Body Adaptation Distillation Final Girl Sir Swears-a-Lot Accidental Murder Bad Boss Adaptation Expansion Costume Porn "Well Done, Son!" Guy From Nobody to Nightmare Mr. Exposition French Films Worthy Opponent Yandere Ripped from the Headlines Word of God The Mafia What Happened to the Mouse? 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Half the Man He Used to Be Becoming the Mask One-Man Army Insistent Terminology Arranged Marriage Demoted to Extra Dying Moment of Awesome Wretched Hive Impaled with Extreme Prejudice The Place Karmic Death Deconstruction Amoral Attorney Dark Action Girl Obviously Evil '80s Hair Tagline Armor-Piercing Question Soundtrack Dissonance Scenery Gorn Serial Killer Abhorrent Admirer Zombie Stories MacGuffin Henpecked Husband Auto Erotica Up to Eleven Big Bad Duumvirate Mexican Standoff Older Than They Look Conspicuous CG Anguished Declaration of Love Villain Song Continuity Nod Product Placement Setting Update Only One Name Due to the Dead Dark and Troubled Past Spell My Name with an "S" Beta Couple Works Set in World War II Early-Bird Cameo Instant Death Bullet Dwindling Party Left the Background Music On Fatal Family Photo Shown Their Work Improbable Infant Survival aka: Infant Immortality Dumb Blonde I'm a Humanitarian Blackmail No OSHA Compliance Artistic License – History Artistic License – Geography Evil Cannot Comprehend Good Breaking the Fourth Wall All There in the Script Immune to Bullets Evil Counterpart Sole Survivor Camp Gay Your Cheating Heart Insult Backfire Facial Horror Heroic BSoD Knight Templar Fun with Acronyms Faking the Dead Age Lift Call-Forward Funny Foreigner Super Strength Adaptation Dye-Job Scenery Porn Market-Based Title Sanity Slippage Unresolved Sexual Tension Creator Cameo Nice Job Fixing It, Villain! 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