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