Tropescilloscope: Kill It with Fire

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

More Tropes Didn't Think This Through Death Glare Shipper on Deck N-Word Privileges In the Back Depraved Bisexual As Himself Not What It Looks Like Jack Bauer Interrogation Technique Stepford Smiler The Ace Arc Words Our Zombies Are Different Anti-Villain Light Is Not Good Even Evil Has Standards Deconstruction Big "NO!" Honor Before Reason Breaking the Fourth Wall Historical Hero Upgrade Japanese Films All Girls Want Bad Boys Exact Words Improbable Aiming Skills Would Hit a Girl For Want of a Nail From Nobody to Nightmare Unreliable Narrator Daddy's Girl Cat Fight Ax-Crazy Agony of the Feet Epic Fail Ominous Latin Chanting Bavarian Fire Drill Demoted to Extra Adaptation Dye-Job Suspiciously Similar Substitute Gratuitous English Captain Ersatz Obviously Evil Those Wacky Nazis Sanity Slippage Mama Bear Disguised in Drag The Cameo Disproportionate Retribution Only a Flesh Wound Insistent Terminology Dull Surprise Black and Gray Morality Not Using the "Z" Word Revenge Cold-Blooded Torture Ascended Extra Say My Name Sliding Scale of Idealism vs. Cynicism Children Are Innocent Setting Update Offscreen Teleportation Properly Paranoid Hollywood Law Ugly Guy, Hot Wife Scenery Porn Batman Gambit Armor-Piercing Question This Is Gonna Suck Plot Hole Recycled IN SPACE! Mystery and Detective Films Badass Bookworm Bury Your Gays Stock Footage Manic Pixie Dream Girl Killed Mid-Sentence Contrived Coincidence Butt-Monkey Adaptational Badass Wrong Genre Savvy Silence Is Golden Calling the Old Man Out Precision F-Strike Spared by the Adaptation Hate Sink Guile Hero Brick Joke Psycho for Hire Catch-Phrase Your Head A-Splode Guns Akimbo Only One Name Call-Back Meaningful Background Event A Date with Rosie Palms Beauty Is Never Tarnished Once More, with Clarity! Casting Gag Deliberately Monochrome Despair Event Horizon All for Nothing Costume Porn Made of Iron You Have Got to Be Kidding Me! Parental Abandonment Horror Comedy Almost Kiss Take a Third Option Better to Die than Be Killed Funny Foreigner Recap / RiffTrax aka: Riff Trax Movies Historical Villain Upgrade Every Car Is a Pinto Trailers Always Spoil Horror Films Belligerent Sexual Tension One-Word Title Authority Equals Asskicking Bilingual Bonus Shell-Shocked Veteran Suddenly SHOUTING! Author Avatar Dramatic Irony Brutal Honesty As You Know Spiritual Successor Country Matters The Remake Product Placement Blackmail Leaning on the Fourth Wall No-Sell Hypocritical Humor Affably Evil Dropped a Bridge on Him Interrupted Suicide The Dragon Pay Evil unto Evil Shower Scene Insane Troll Logic Everyone Has Standards Broken Bird Cool Old Lady Older Than They Look Dies Wide Open Lighter and Softer Running Gag Black Dude Dies First Empathic Environment Big Bad Duumvirate Redshirt Army The Faceless Star-Crossed Lovers Hong Kong Films Race Lift Hooker with a Heart of Gold Adaptation Expansion Kick the Son of a Bitch Never My Fault The Voiceless Never Trust a Trailer Cat Scare timeperiod Major Injury Underreaction Camp Gay Pyrrhic Victory Film Series Evil-Detecting Dog Morality Pet Faux Affably Evil The Starscream Time Skip Evil Plan Slasher Smile Fiery Redhead Get Out! Papa Wolf I Have Your Wife Sadistic Choice Homage Screw the Money, I Have Rules! 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As Long as It Sounds Foreign A Minor Kidroduction Italian Films From Bad to Worse The Ghost Epic Movie Fire-Forged Friends Book-Ends Animated Credits Opening No OSHA Compliance The X of Y Mind Screw Handicapped Badass You Have Failed Me Action Girl Biopic Sequel Escalation Pragmatic Adaptation Tagline Faking the Dead Public Domain Feature Films Roaring Rampage of Revenge Christmas Movies Index Happily Married There Is No Kill Like Overkill I Just Shot Marvin in the Face Posthumous Character Based on a True Story Hell Is That Noise Jerk Jock Jerkass Rasputinian Death Cool Old Guy Bound and Gagged Crapsack World Action Survivor Toplessness from the Back The Hero I Want My Beloved to Be Happy Ironic Echo Fun with Acronyms Thriller Broken Pedestal Police are Useless Chase Scene Cluster F-Bomb Pre-Asskicking One-Liner Spell My Name with an "S" World of Ham Famous Last Words Face Death with Dignity Daylight Horror Easily Forgiven Framing Device Pimped-Out Dress Mexican Standoff Alpha Bitch Adorkable Frame-Up Why Don't You Just Shoot Him? 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Is a Crapshoot Overly Long Gag Love at First Sight Camera Abuse Historical In-Joke What You Are in the Dark B-Movie Maybe Magic, Maybe Mundane The Oner Motor Mouth Dirty Cop Artistic License – Geography Determinator Gilligan Cut For the Evulz Outrun the Fireball Retirony Gone Horribly Right Dramatic Gun Cock Canadian Movies Groin Attack Men Are the Expendable Gender Roger Ebert: Great Movies List Determinator aka: The Determinator Small Name, Big Ego Berserk Button Break the Cutie Arson, Murder, and Jaywalking Dressing as the Enemy Bunny-Ears Lawyer Creator Cameo Animal Motifs Ambiguous Disorder Jerkass Has a Point Put on a Bus Adaptational Attractiveness Retcon Twist Ending Facial Horror Bait-and-Switch Victoria's Secret Compartment All Just a Dream Film Noir Badass in a Nice Suit Paper-Thin Disguise Mad Scientist The Stoic Creative Closing Credits Retired Badass Bloody Hilarious No-Holds-Barred Beatdown Red Eyes, Take Warning Last-Name Basis Attempted Rape Face–Heel Turn Award-Bait Song Fan Disservice Distracted by the Sexy Foregone Conclusion Action Genre Loads and Loads of Characters Not So Above It All Knife Nut Line-of-Sight Name Fate Worse than Death Took a Level in Jerkass Artistic License – Military Badass Boast Karmic Death Big Bad Historical-Domain Character Soundtrack Dissonance Darker and Edgier Zombie Stories Sinister Minister Totally Radical He Who Fights Monsters Hero Antagonist Black Best Friend Rule of Cool Woman Scorned Continuity Nod Fish out of Water Big Eater Irony It Can Think Captain Obvious Random Events Plot Chekhov's Skill Very Loosely Based on a True Story Meaningful Name The Musical Red Oni, Blue Oni Chewing the Scenery Ungrateful Bastard Dumb Blonde Chekhov's Gunman Boom, Headshot! 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Intergenerational Friendship Combat Pragmatist Plucky Comic Relief The Lost Lenore Truth in Television Establishing Character Moment The Vamp Adults Are Useless Big-Bad Ensemble An Arm and a Leg Anachronic Order It Will Never Catch On Pretty Little Headshots Bad Boss Freeze-Frame Bonus Maybe Ever After Off-into-the-Distance Ending Death of a Child The Chick Rich Bitch Vacation Films Pun aka: Incredibly Lame Pun Foil Parental Substitute Whole Plot Reference Fanservice Extra The Smart Guy Abusive Parents Reality Is Unrealistic Shut Up, Hannibal! 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Improbable Weapon User Sequel Hook Romantic False Lead La Résistance Idiot Ball The Stoner Crouching Moron, Hidden Badass Token Minority Music Stories Accidental Misnaming Punny Name Married to the Job Evil Cannot Comprehend Good Evil Sounds Deep Bi the Way Gender Flip Brother–Sister Incest Gorn Nice Hat Cowboy Cop Flashback Drill Sergeant Nasty Unwitting Instigator of Doom Smug Snake Big Applesauce The Place The '90s Superhero Leave the Camera Running Adult Fear Improvised Weapon All There in the Script Amusing Injuries Heroes Want Redheads Be Careful What You Wish For Foreshadowing Screw the Rules, I Have Money! Crazy-Prepared I Need a Freaking Drink Catapult Nightmare Real Life Writes the Plot The Film of the Book Earn Your Happy Ending Kill 'em All And the Adventure Continues Cruel and Unusual Death And I Must Scream Jitter Cam The End... Or Is It? Back from the Dead Karma Houdini Military and Warfare Films The Casanova Sealed Evil in a Can "Well Done, Son!" Guy Drugs Are Bad He Knows Too Much Leitmotif Our Vampires Are Different Femme Fatale Ship Tease Slashed Throat Loophole Abuse The Dreaded Betty and Veronica Drives Like Crazy MacGuffin Training Montage Due to the Dead Red Shirt Suspiciously Specific Denial Sexy Discretion Shot Villain Opening Scene Romantic Comedy The Brute Insult Backfire Corrupt Corporate Executive Together in Death The Quiet One Slap-Slap-Kiss Colour-Coded for Your Convenience aka: Color Coded For Your Convenience Here We Go Again! 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Rule of Three Parental Neglect Overprotective Dad Woman in White Monumental Damage One Steve Limit Ass Shove Scary Black Man Closed Circle Poor Communication Kills Knight Templar Jerk with a Heart of Gold Lock and Load Montage Awesome, but Impractical BFG Green-Eyed Monster Demonic Possession Riddle for the Ages Downer Ending Cassandra Truth The Cavalry Fake Shemp Canon Foreigner Kubrick Stare The '50s Stealth Hi/Bye Vitriolic Best Buds Vampire Fiction French Films Television Movie Index Bottomless Magazines Australian Movies Dual Wielding Diabolus ex Machina Lampshade Hanging folderlabel Adapted Out Bolivian Army Ending Wounded Gazelle Gambit She's Got Legs The '70s The '80s Man on Fire Card-Carrying Villain Villainous Breakdown Reckless Gun Usage Character Development Serious Business Evil Counterpart Stalker with a Crush Conspicuous CG Fatal Family Photo Genre Throwback Intrepid Reporter The Reveal Friend to All Children Stealth Pun Gold Digger Ragtag Bunch of Misfits Tranquil Fury Freudian Excuse Evil Brit Fantasy Films Oh, Crap! 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