Tropescilloscope: Implacable Man

A villainous Determinator, with the toughness to back it up. (read more at tvtropes.org)

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