Tropescilloscope: Drill Sergeant Nasty

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