Tropescilloscope: Action Girl

A Badass who just happens to be a girl. (read more at tvtropes.org)

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