Tropescilloscope: An Axe to Grind

Using an axe as a weapon. (read more at tvtropes.org)

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Guy Historical In-Joke Bloodier and Gorier Really Gets Around Call-Back Hero of Another Story Biopic Karmic Death Made of Iron Bilingual Bonus Super Strength Book-Ends Rewatch Bonus Destination Defenestration Mystery and Detective Films He Who Fights Monsters Bloodless Carnage Disguised in Drag Eldritch Abomination Dirty Old Man Slap-Slap-Kiss Romantic Comedy Adaptational Badass Stealth Hi/Bye Tempting Fate Ominous Latin Chanting Sports Stories Fatal Flaw Take a Third Option Improvised Weapon The Stinger Needs Wiki Magic Love Bitch in Sheep's Clothing Death by Adaptation Artistic License – Gun Safety Adapted Out Irony As Himself Room Full of Crazy Bi the Way I'm a Humanitarian Big-Bad Ensemble Totally Radical Pyrrhic Victory Homage Protagonist Title Chuck Cunningham Syndrome Vomit Discretion Shot Celebrity Paradox Air-Vent Passageway Did Not Get the Girl And I Must Scream Fun with Acronyms Continuity Nod Silent Movie Even Evil Has Loved Ones Bad Boss Black Comedy Rape Extremely Short Timespan Pre-Mortem One-Liner Greater-Scope Villain Abhorrent Admirer Jitter Cam Eye Scream Reality Ensues Spell My Name with an "S" Half the Man He Used to Be The Film of the Book Video Credits Motor Mouth Faking the Dead Taking the Bullet The Load Shell-Shocked Veteran Only in It for the Money Action Survivor Conspicuous CG A God Am I Artistic License – Military As Long as It Sounds Foreign Dissonant Serenity "Where Are They Now?" Epilogue Chekhov's Gun The Quiet One Man on Fire Star-Crossed Lovers Dogged Nice Guy Demonic Possession Woobie, Destroyer of Worlds Fire-Forged Friends Manic Pixie Dream Girl Bar Brawl Insane Troll Logic The Power of Love No Name Given Maybe Ever After Index of Film Westerns Ship Tease Dumb Blonde Red Right Hand Exactly What It Says on the Tin Leaning on the Fourth Wall Deconstruction Big Applesauce Cold-Blooded Torture Creative Closing Credits Hope Spot The Alcoholic Time Skip Light Is Not Good Narrator Faux Affably Evil Empathic Environment The Oner The Cameo Cool Old Guy Science Fiction Films Dwindling Party Foreshadowing Kick the Dog Loads and Loads of Characters Ugly Guy, Hot Wife Instant Death Bullet Camera Abuse Hell Is That Noise Small Name, Big Ego Straight Gay Mooks Slasher Smile Big Fancy House Took a Level in Badass Villain Protagonist One-Word Title Psycho for Hire Documentary The '50s I Did What I Had to Do Artistic License – History Self-Deprecation Dull Surprise Hoist by His Own Petard Gold Digger In Medias Res Never Trust a Trailer aka: Trailers Always Lie Crapsack World Breaking the Fourth Wall Failed a Spot Check Novelization Diabolus ex Machina It's Personal "The Reason You Suck" Speech Hollywood Darkness Pragmatic Villainy Hong Kong Films Dark and Troubled Past The Cavalry Race Against the Clock Adorkable Final Girl Mr. Fanservice Evil Sounds Deep Good Is Not Nice O.O.C. Is Serious Business Meet Cute Retired Badass Cruel and Unusual Death Humans Are Bastards Framing Device Translation Convention Screw the Money, I Have Rules! Poor Communication Kills Shoot the Shaggy Dog Men Are the Expendable Gender Storming the Castle The Smart Guy Heterosexual Life-Partners Revenge Author Appeal Attempted Rape Evil Brit Groin Attack Punctuated! For! Emphasis! Shout-Out Martial Arts Movie Car Fu Crazy-Prepared The Ditz Black Dude Dies First Your Cheating Heart Apocalypse How The Bad Guy Wins Call-Forward Big Brother Instinct All Girls Want Bad Boys Re-Cut Red Herring Insistent Terminology La Résistance World of Ham You Have Got to Be Kidding Me! Despair Event Horizon The Remake Hypocritical Humor Last-Name Basis Babies Ever After Hollywood Law Drives Like Crazy All There in the Script A Minor Kidroduction Cassandra Truth What Happened to the Mouse? 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Up to Eleven Product Placement Gilligan Cut Armor-Piercing Question Belligerent Sexual Tension Slashed Throat The Hero Dies Shut Up, Hannibal! Actually Pretty Funny Fate Worse than Death Laughing Mad Peek-a-Boo Corpse Bland-Name Product Chewing the Scenery Horror Comedy Jack Bauer Interrogation Technique Toilet Humour aka: Toilet Humor Mood Whiplash As the Good Book Says... Credits Gag Even Bad Men Love Their Mamas Precision F-Strike Fingore Crazy Jealous Guy Bound and Gagged Those Wacky Nazis Every Car Is a Pinto From Nobody to Nightmare Suddenly SHOUTING! Missing Mom Mythology Gag Race Lift Cloudcuckoolander Dirty Coward Film Series It Will Never Catch On Agony of the Feet Running Gag Meaningful Background Event Arch-Enemy Animal Title Index The Big Guy Blood from the Mouth Mind Screw Mugging the Monster Wicked Cultured Rule of Three Suspiciously Similar Substitute Drill Sergeant Nasty Exact Words Double Entendre Anti-Villain Big Eater Mexican Standoff Femme Fatale Adaptation Name Change From Bad to Worse Affably Evil Ambiguous Ending For the Evulz Animal Motifs Fat Bastard Made of Explodium Rule of Cool Screw the Rules, I Have Money! Daddy's Girl No Antagonist Romantic False Lead Scenery Porn The Reveal Asshole Victim Screw the Rules, I'm Doing What's Right! 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The Place Ironic Echo Scary Black Man Dies Wide Open Spared by the Adaptation Hooker with a Heart of Gold Broken Bird Kubrick Stare All There in the Manual The Ace Extreme Doormat Happily Married Frame-Up Determinator aka: The Determinator A Father to His Men Unusual Euphemism Casting Gag Ripped from the Headlines Artistic License – Biology Non-Indicative Name Badass Longcoat Film Noir Index Setting Update Loophole Abuse Guile Hero The X of Y Aluminum Christmas Trees Large Ham Heel Realization Bald of Evil Roaring Rampage of Revenge Expy Closed Circle Kick the Son of a Bitch He Knows Too Much Black Best Friend Neck Lift The Lost Lenore Heroic Sacrifice Foil Corpsing Worthy Opponent Sanity Slippage Nice Guy Cool Guns Riddle for the Ages Break the Cutie What You Are in the Dark Jerk Jock Psychological Thriller Funny Background Event I Need a Freaking Drink Imperial Stormtrooper Marksmanship Academy The '70s The Dragon No Celebrities Were Harmed Villain Song Vampire Fiction Bowdlerise Mama Bear Psychopathic Manchild Woman Scorned Naïve Newcomer My God, What Have I Done? 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