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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Here We Go Again! Improbable Weapon User Death by Sex Oh, Crap! Ship Tease The Ghost The Big Guy Dark and Troubled Past Freudian Excuse Anti-Hero Annoying Younger Sibling Soundtrack Dissonance He Who Fights Monsters Whole Plot Reference Heroic BSoD Action Genre Would Hit a Girl Soft Glass Male Gaze It Can Think Screw This, I'm Outta Here! Loads and Loads of Characters MacGuffin Australian Movies Apocalypse How Expository Hairstyle Change Armor-Piercing Question Easily Forgiven The Dreaded Framing Device Slasher Smile The Faceless Blood from the Mouth Wham Shot You Have Failed Me Fiery Redhead Bar Brawl Retired Badass Black Best Friend Nice Job Fixing It, Villain! Arch-Enemy Genre Shift Parental Neglect Air-Vent Passageway Genre Savvy The Dog Bites Back Kill It with Fire Love at First Sight Stock Footage Impaled with Extreme Prejudice Evil Sounds Deep Laser-Guided Karma Does Not Like Shoes Needs Wiki Magic Love Wrong Genre Savvy Adaptational Heroism Humiliation Conga Pragmatic Villainy Vacation Films Ambiguous Ending In the Back Screw the Rules, I'm Doing What's Right! Continuity Nod Green-Eyed Monster Beauty Is Never Tarnished There Is No Kill Like Overkill Department of Redundancy Department Frame-Up Cassandra Truth Not Even Bothering with the Accent Kill 'em All Intrepid Reporter Fantastic Racism Training Montage Awesome, but Impractical Throwing Your Sword Always Works Everyone Calls Him "Barkeep" Same Language Dub Anyone Can Die Action Girl Killed Mid-Sentence Running Gag Rasputinian Death Off with His Head! 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Mood Whiplash Bond Villain Stupidity Nice Hat Shirtless Scene Spanner in the Works The Lost Lenore Facial Horror Crapsack World Ominous Latin Chanting Car Fu Distracted by the Sexy Cat Fight Horror Films Offscreen Moment of Awesome British Films Agony of the Feet Hell Is That Noise Mercy Kill The Cameo The Ace Creative Closing Credits Authority Equals Asskicking In Medias Res Hero Antagonist Redshirt Army Knife Nut Show Within a Show Not Using the "Z" Word As You Know Epic Fail Star-Crossed Lovers Imperial Stormtrooper Marksmanship Academy Pre-Asskicking One-Liner Animal Motifs Gone Horribly Right Adaptation Name Change Berserk Button Take a Third Option Jerk Jock Pun aka: Incredibly Lame Pun The Film of the Book Comically Missing the Point A Minor Kidroduction Smoking Is Cool Demonic Possession Based on a True Story You Killed My Father The Voiceless Mundane Made Awesome Bare Your Midriff Dark Is Not Evil Vomit Discretion Shot Chekhov's Gun Rape as Drama As Long as It Sounds Foreign Laughing Mad Tagline Actually Pretty Funny Dirty Coward Informed Ability Bond One-Liner Leitmotif Music Stories Fingore Hoist by His Own Petard Redemption Equals Death 20 Minutes into the Future Ax-Crazy Karmic Death Amusing Injuries Ripped from the Headlines Flipping the Bird Shell-Shocked Veteran No OSHA Compliance Sassy Black Woman Slashed Throat Fainting Nice Guy What Happened to the Mouse? 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Is Serious Business Loophole Abuse Obstructive Bureaucrat Adaptation Dye-Job Christmas Movies Index Put on a Bus Fanservice The Dragon Large Ham Stylistic Suck Cloudcuckoolander Heel–Face Turn Badass Normal Anachronic Order Have a Gay Old Time Alas, Poor Villain The Chick Screw the Rules, I Have Money! BFG All There in the Manual Obfuscating Stupidity No Antagonist Hollywood Darkness Immune to Bullets What the Hell, Hero? 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Cool Old Lady Auto Erotica Rule of Symbolism Italian Films Lampshade Hanging '80s Hair Our Zombies Are Different Mind Screw Historical Villain Upgrade Parental Substitute Match Cut Spared by the Adaptation Yandere The Bad Guy Wins Refuge in Audacity Noodle Incident One-Word Title For the Evulz Darker and Edgier Casting Gag Narrator Everyone Has Standards Psychological Thriller War Is Hell It's All About Me Dies Wide Open It's Personal Sole Survivor Children Are Innocent Eye Scream Big Applesauce Big "NO!" 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Woman in White Even Bad Men Love Their Mamas Undying Loyalty Bunny-Ears Lawyer Suspiciously Specific Denial The Remake The Great Depression Never Found the Body Hypocrite Bait-and-Switch "Awesome McCool" Name Half the Man He Used to Be Bloody Hilarious Shout-Out Homage Curb-Stomp Battle And Starring Gilligan Cut "The Reason You Suck" Speech In Name Only Line-of-Sight Name Evil vs. Evil Evil-Detecting Dog Retcon Bowdlerise Death Seeker Earn Your Happy Ending Vitriolic Best Buds Token Minority Epic Movie Even Evil Has Standards Almost Kiss Alliterative Name Humans Are Bastards Brainless Beauty Double Entendre Girl-on-Girl Is Hot Diabolus ex Machina Artistic License – History Mama Bear Woman Scorned Intergenerational Friendship Setting Update Eldritch Abomination Obviously Evil Failed a Spot Check Instant Death Bullet Didn't Think This Through Evil Laugh Russian Films Twist Ending Taking the Bullet May–December Romance You Have Got to Be Kidding Me! Dark Reprise Take That! 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Meaningful Background Event Famous Last Words Slap-Slap-Kiss Meaningful Name Card-Carrying Villain Bad Boss Not So Above It All Heterosexual Life-Partners Unusual Euphemism Posthumous Character Really Gets Around Sequel Escalation All There in the Script Tap on the Head Fan Disservice Dressing as the Enemy Creator Cameo timeperiod Chiaroscuro Chewing the Scenery Crouching Moron, Hidden Badass Historical In-Joke Too Dumb to Live Slasher Movie Gold Digger Defiant to the End Leave the Camera Running Pragmatic Adaptation Pre-Mortem One-Liner Every Car Is a Pinto Arson, Murder, and Jaywalking Wicked Cultured Film Noir Index I Did What I Had to Do Toilet Humour aka: Toilet Humor Extreme Doormat For Want of a Nail Works Set in World War II Truth in Television Asshole Victim Daylight Horror Flashback Meet Cute Worthy Opponent Rule of Funny Poor Communication Kills Ambiguous Disorder Due to the Dead Trailers Always Spoil Our Vampires Are Different Attempted Rape Eureka Moment Broken Pedestal Artistic License – Geography Pretty Little Headshots Evil Plan Gender Flip Downer Ending Reality Is Unrealistic Happily Married The Un-Reveal Artistic License – Physics Ass Shove The Smurfette Principle Up to Eleven Jerkass Has a Point Idiot Ball Wounded Gazelle Gambit Beware the Nice Ones Anti-Villain Honor Before Reason Psycho for Hire Rich Bitch Destination Defenestration Face–Heel Turn The Quiet One Improvised Weapon Love Triangle Badass Boast Lighter and Softer Accidental Misnaming Dirty Old Man Darkest Hour Foregone Conclusion Those Wacky Nazis Morality Pet From Bad to Worse Bald of Evil Male Frontal Nudity Faux Affably Evil Eagleland Improbable Aiming Skills Credits Gag "Shaggy Dog" Story Alpha Bitch Anguished Declaration of Love Jitter Cam Does This Remind You of Anything? Cain and Abel Determinator aka: The Determinator Ugly Guy, Hot Wife Disappeared Dad Animated Credits Opening No-Holds-Barred Beatdown Mr. Exposition Broken Aesop Death by Adaptation Silence Is Golden Camp Gay Hair-Trigger Temper Depraved Bisexual One Steve Limit Names to Run Away from Really Fast The Load Back from the Dead Manchild Mooks Men Are the Expendable Gender Politically Incorrect Villain Betty and Veronica