Tropescilloscope: Took a Level in Badass

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