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