Tropescilloscope: Retired Badass

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

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