Tropescilloscope: Action Genre

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