Tropescilloscope: Action Genre

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