Tropescilloscope: Action Genre

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