Tropescilloscope: Gorn

Gratuitous, over-the-top graphic violence. (read more at tvtropes.org)

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