Tropescilloscope: An Axe to Grind

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

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