Tropescilloscope: Combat Pragmatist

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