Tropescilloscope: Action Genre

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