Tropescilloscope: Adaptational Badass

The newer incarnation is much more of an action guy. (read more at tvtropes.org)

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