Tropescilloscope: Took a Level in Badass

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