Tropescilloscope: Action Genre

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