Tropescilloscope: Took a Level in Badass

It's time to get badass! (read more at tvtropes.org)

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