Tropescilloscope: Bar Brawl

A big, destructive fight in a bar. (read more at tvtropes.org)

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