Tropescilloscope: Took a Level in Badass

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