Tropescilloscope: Super Strength

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

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