Tropescilloscope: Combat Pragmatist

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