Tropescilloscope: Retired Badass

The badass has quit the role which made him badass. (read more at tvtropes.org)

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