Tropescilloscope: Retired Badass

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

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