Tropescilloscope: Action Genre

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