Tropescilloscope: Retired Badass

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

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