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)

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