Tropescilloscope: La Résistance

Small band of rebels fighting against tyranny. (read more at tvtropes.org)

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