Tropescilloscope: Artistic License – Military

Inaccuracies in military training, procedures, command structure, or practices are ignored in favor of telling the story. (read more at tvtropes.org)

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