Tropescilloscope: Combat Pragmatist

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