Tropescilloscope: Drill Sergeant Nasty

I WILL TURN YOU INTO REAL SOLDIERS EVEN IF IT KILLS YOU, MAGGOTS! (read more at tvtropes.org)

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