Tropescilloscope: Made of Iron

Character is way tougher than possible in Real Life, and there's no fictional reason either. (read more at tvtropes.org)

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