Tropescilloscope: Kill It with Fire

The best (or only) way to get rid of something is burning it. (read more at tvtropes.org)

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They Really Do Love Each Other Take That! Slashed Throat Artistic License – Law Race Lift Continuity Nod Meet Cute Big Fancy House Apocalypse How Chiaroscuro Scenery Porn Maybe Ever After Villain with Good Publicity Freeze-Frame Bonus Call-Forward True Companions Back from the Dead Tempting Fate Fingore The Hero Drugs Are Bad Age Lift War Is Hell Implacable Man No-Sell Running Gag Straight Gay Author Avatar Poor Communication Kills Framing Device Instant Death Bullet The End... Or Is It? Tranquil Fury Sir Swears-a-Lot The Chessmaster Smug Snake Important Haircut Pimped-Out Dress Improbable Aiming Skills Not Even Bothering with the Accent Outrun the Fireball Reasonable Authority Figure Faking the Dead Spanner in the Works Air-Vent Passageway Animated Credits Opening The Dragon Death Seeker Sequel Hook Sacrificial Lion Crazy Jealous Guy "Awesome McCool" Name The '60s The '70s Conspicuous CG Darker and Edgier Laughing Mad It Can Think Death of a Child Biopic Immune to Bullets Arranged Marriage Artistic License – Gun Safety Animal Motifs Deliberate Values Dissonance Genre Savvy Last-Name Basis My Greatest Failure Bloodless Carnage Ironic Echo Failed a Spot Check Stealth Hi/Bye Have a Gay Old Time Cool Old Guy Expy Broken Aesop Action Prologue The Load Butt-Monkey No-Holds-Barred Beatdown Eiffel Tower Effect Advertised Extra Took a Level in Badass How We Got Here Retired Badass Make It Look Like an Accident Motor Mouth Faux Affably Evil Wrong Genre Savvy Femme Fatale O.O.C. 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Together in Death Badass Normal In the Back Maybe Magic, Maybe Mundane Christmas Movies Index Beauty Is Never Tarnished Deliberately Monochrome Black Comedy Rape Properly Paranoid The Un-Reveal Bar Brawl Big Eater Corpsing The Sociopath Captain Obvious For the Evulz Dirty Cop The Remake Based on a True Story Stealth Pun Pre-Asskicking One-Liner Neck Lift The Mafia Made of Iron Obviously Evil Scare Chord Jack Bauer Interrogation Technique Psychological Thriller Danny Peary Cult Movies List Hollywood Law Black and Gray Morality Noodle Incident Ax-Crazy Flipping the Bird Parental Abandonment You Have Outlived Your Usefulness The Voiceless Closed Circle Epic Movie Suspiciously Specific Denial Kick the Dog Throwing Your Sword Always Works Brainless Beauty Those Two Bad Guys Vomit Discretion Shot Love Triangle Arc Words In Name Only Fat Bastard Self-Deprecation Knife Nut Retcon N-Word Privileges Why Don't You Just Shoot Him? 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Camera Abuse Contrived Coincidence Insistent Terminology Belligerent Sexual Tension Once More, with Clarity! Fourth Date Marriage Manipulative Bastard Malevolent Masked Men I Want My Beloved to Be Happy Artistic License – Biology Market-Based Title timeperiod Historical-Domain Character All Just a Dream Artistic License – Military Small Name, Big Ego Hair of Gold, Heart of Gold Screw the Rules, I'm Doing What's Right! 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The Casanova Grievous Bottley Harm What Happened to the Mouse? Kids Are Cruel Genre Throwback Scenery Gorn I'm a Humanitarian What You Are in the Dark Actor Allusion I Did What I Had to Do Fantastic Racism Bond One-Liner Bottomless Magazines Brick Joke Batman Gambit An Arm and a Leg Really Gets Around Science Fiction Films The Ghost Screw the Rules, I Have Money! Evil vs. Evil Ghost Fiction Calling the Old Man Out Oh, Crap! Reality Has No Subtitles Random Events Plot Mistaken for Gay Fanservice Extra Superhero No Name Given Shell-Shocked Veteran Dark Action Girl Canon Foreigner The Quiet One Rule of Cool Real Life Writes the Plot Eye Scream Victoria's Secret Compartment Fan Disservice Suspiciously Similar Substitute Crazy-Prepared Affably Evil The Vamp Anachronism Stew Determinator aka: The Determinator Final Girl Anachronic Order Adaptation Expansion Politically Incorrect Villain Chekhov's Gunman Blood from the Mouth Anti-Villain The Lost Lenore Death Glare Super Strength Hope Spot Adorkable Vitriolic Best Buds Horror Comedy It's Personal Disney Death You Killed My Father Shut Up, Hannibal! Domestic Abuse Chekhov's Gun Visual Pun "Where Are They Now?" 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Is a Crapshoot Ugly Guy, Hot Wife Cain and Abel Neck Snap Serious Business Celebrity Paradox Coming-of-Age Story "Well Done, Son!" Guy Dies Wide Open Unspoken Plan Guarantee Toilet Humour aka: Toilet Humor Mood Whiplash Music Stories Tagline Romantic Comedy Unusually Uninteresting Sight As Himself Red Eyes, Take Warning Flashback Manly Tears The '50s Parental Substitute Leitmotif Evil Plan Thriller Anyone Can Die I Have Your Wife Berserk Button Missing Mom Reckless Gun Usage Demoted to Extra Big Bad Dark and Troubled Past Imagine Spot Playing Gertrude Jerkass Rousing Speech Hong Kong Films Index of Film Westerns Dissonant Serenity Rape as Drama After the End Ungrateful Bastard Your Cheating Heart The Brute Damsel in Distress No Ending Camp Gay Parental Incest Gilligan Cut Arson, Murder, and Jaywalking An Aesop Stuff Blowing Up Boom, Headshot! Villain Protagonist Dutch Angle Karma Houdini Creator Cameo Bolivian Army Ending Foregone Conclusion Screw the Money, I Have Rules! Line-of-Sight Name My God, What Have I Done? Black Dude Dies First Screw This, I'm Outta Here! Logo Joke Didn't Think This Through Bavarian Fire Drill Hair-Trigger Temper Villain Ball Mama Bear Hoist by His Own Petard Adaptational Badass Wicked Cultured Even Evil Has Loved Ones Recap / RiffTrax aka: Riff Trax Movies Beta Couple Almost Kiss Artistic License – Physics NO INDOOR VOICE Becoming the Mask Woobie, Destroyer of Worlds Our Zombies Are Different Historical In-Joke Horror Doesn't Settle for Simple Tuesday Woman Scorned Interrupted Suicide Evil Is Hammy Posthumous Character Trailers Always Spoil Bittersweet Ending Easily Forgiven Eyepatch of Power Ominous Latin Chanting Mad Scientist The Chick Empathic Environment Everyone Calls Him "Barkeep" Hollywood Darkness Evil Is Petty Badass Grandpa Red Herring No Good Deed Goes Unpunished Bloody Hilarious Creative Closing Credits What the Hell, Hero? Shout-Out Hero Antagonist Pet the Dog Enemy Mine Kill 'em All Silent Movie Disappeared Dad Dressing as the Enemy Stepford Smiler Dramatic Gun Cock Department of Redundancy Department Villain Song Plot Hole Break the Haughty Does This Remind You of Anything? Bait-and-Switch Why Did It Have to Be Snakes? Artistic License – Geography Broken Pedestal Men Are the Expendable Gender Unresolved Sexual Tension Improbable Infant Survival aka: Infant Immortality Pre-Mortem One-Liner Race Against the Clock Accidental Misnaming Offscreen Teleportation Actually Pretty Funny Jump Scare Cat Scare Man on Fire The Smart Guy Amusing Injuries Disney Villain Death MacGuffin Only in It for the Money Author Appeal Jitter Cam Spiritual Successor Call-Back Whole Plot Reference Only Sane Man Death by Sex As You Know Chewing the Scenery Loads and Loads of Characters Creepy Child Eldritch Abomination Silence Is Golden Even Evil Has Standards Greater-Scope Villain Drill Sergeant Nasty All for Nothing Psychopathic Manchild Dirty Old Man Black Comedy A Date with Rosie Palms Time Skip Slasher Movie Mind Screw And the Adventure Continues Evil Sounds Deep Bring My Brown Pants You Have Got to Be Kidding Me! Nice Job Fixing It, Villain! Canadian Movies Rule of Symbolism Defrosting Ice Queen Historical Hero Upgrade Mugging the Monster Adaptation Dye-Job Television Movie Index Covers Always Lie Improbable Weapon User Big Bad Duumvirate Rape Is a Special Kind of Evil Vacation Films Hypocrite Toplessness from the Back