Tropescilloscope: Implacable Man

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

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