Tropescilloscope: Action Genre

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