Tropescilloscope: Groin Attack

Attacking A Man's (or woman's) Private Parts inflicts MASSIVE Damage. (read more at tvtropes.org)

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