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