Tropescilloscope: Super Strength

Unambiguously superhuman physical strength. (read more at tvtropes.org)

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