Tropescilloscope: Action Genre

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