Tropescilloscope: Let's Get Dangerous!

The moment a bumbling or comedic Super Zero stops being one and demonstrates the magnitude of their true hyper-competence. (read more at tvtropes.org)

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