Tropescilloscope: Took a Level in Badass

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