Tropescilloscope: Action Girl

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

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