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