Tropescilloscope: Combat Pragmatist

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