Tropescilloscope: Gorn

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

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