Tropescilloscope: Retired Badass

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

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