Tropescilloscope: Took a Level in Badass

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