Tropescilloscope: Bullying a Dragon

Hey, let's go mess with the guy who can easily kill us all! (read more at tvtropes.org)

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Room Full of Crazy Police are Useless Dressing as the Enemy He Who Fights Monsters Dirty Coward Extremely Short Timespan Evil Cannot Comprehend Good The Load Ship Tease You Have Outlived Your Usefulness An Aesop Face–Heel Turn Bittersweet Ending Why Don't You Just Shoot Him? The Reveal Stylistic Suck Imagine Spot "Awesome McCool" Name Pretty in Mink Narrator Big Damn Heroes Military and Warfare Films Bavarian Fire Drill Danny Peary Cult Movies List Woobie, Destroyer of Worlds Rape Is a Special Kind of Evil Setting Update Improbable Aiming Skills Sci-Fi Horror Deus ex Machina Screw the Money, I Have Rules! Zombie Stories Sir Not-Appearing-in-This-Trailer Overly Long Gag Boom, Headshot! Kubrick Stare O.O.C. 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Depraved Bisexual Sadistic Choice Brother–Sister Incest Moment Killer Politically Incorrect Villain Amusing Injuries Cold-Blooded Torture Cool Car Outrun the Fireball Butt-Monkey Love Triangle The Dog Bites Back The Chessmaster Red Herring Disney Death Heel–Face Turn Not What It Looks Like Humans Are Bastards Small Name, Big Ego Break the Cutie Chekhov's Gunman Only One Name Mood Whiplash Love at First Sight Names to Run Away from Really Fast '80s Hair Cluster F-Bomb Get Out! 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After the End Mundane Made Awesome Mooks Fanservice Extra In Medias Res The Ditz Anachronism Stew Dark Reprise Mexican Standoff Daddy's Girl Catapult Nightmare Sole Survivor Fate Worse than Death Chewing the Scenery Scary Black Man Reality Ensues Action Prologue Downer Ending Defrosting Ice Queen Closed Circle Slasher Movie Retirony Cool Guns As Himself Bloodier and Gorier Babies Ever After Roaring Rampage of Revenge I Want My Beloved to Be Happy The Brute Pyrrhic Victory Cat Fight Everyone Has Standards Pretty Little Headshots Scare Chord Hair of Gold, Heart of Gold Guile Hero My Beloved Smother Freudian Excuse The Cavalry Sassy Black Woman Mr. Fanservice Parental Substitute Adaptational Villainy Artistic License – Geography Berserk Button Body Horror The Bully Action Survivor