Tropescilloscope: BFG

A gun so huge that a single person shouldn't be able to heft it. (read more at tvtropes.org)

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