Tropescilloscope: Action Genre

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