Tropescilloscope: Retired Badass

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

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