Tropescilloscope: Action Genre

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