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