Tropescilloscope: Retired Badass

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

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