Tropescilloscope: Retired Badass

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

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