Tropescilloscope: Took a Level in Badass

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