Tropescilloscope: Lock and Load Montage

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