Tropescilloscope: Action Genre

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