Tropescilloscope: Smoking Is Cool

Character who smokes = Badass (read more at tvtropes.org)

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