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