Tropescilloscope: Man on Fire

People burn very easily. (read more at tvtropes.org)

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