Tropescilloscope: Retired Badass

The badass has quit the role which made him badass. (read more at tvtropes.org)

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