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