Tropescilloscope: Combat Pragmatist

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