Tropescilloscope: Curb-Stomp Battle

Defeating an opponent with barely any effort. (read more at tvtropes.org)

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