Tropescilloscope: An Axe to Grind

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

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