Tropescilloscope: Man on Fire

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

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Cruel and Unusual Death Instant Death Bullet The Faceless NO INDOOR VOICE Star-Crossed Lovers Serious Business Obviously Evil Catch-Phrase Kick the Son of a Bitch Villain Protagonist MacGuffin Arch-Enemy Blood from the Mouth And the Adventure Continues The '70s Those Two Bad Guys What You Are in the Dark Demoted to Extra The Big Guy The Ditz Pyrrhic Victory Not Even Bothering with the Accent BFG Epic Movie Bloodier and Gorier The Cavalry Intrepid Reporter Adaptational Heroism Recap / RiffTrax aka: Riff Trax Movies A Father to His Men Rule of Funny Annoying Younger Sibling Never Trust a Trailer aka: Trailers Always Lie Unreliable Narrator Guile Hero Ironic Echo Would Hurt a Child Due to the Dead Hair of Gold, Heart of Gold Camera Abuse The Power of Love Action Prologue Spiteful Spit Never My Fault The Musical Vacation Films I Have Your Wife Film Series Not So Above It All Roaring Rampage of Revenge Storming the Castle Creative Closing Credits In the Back Crucified Hero Shot Costume Porn Death Seeker Bring My Brown Pants Animated Credits Opening Body Horror Call-Forward Chiaroscuro Asshole Victim Butt-Monkey Revenge Male Gaze You Killed My Father Have a Gay Old Time Pimped-Out Dress Chase Scene Credits Gag It Will Never Catch On More Dakka Genre Shift Scenery Gorn Ship Tease Babies Ever After Rated M for Manly Screw the Rules, I Have Money! Interrupted Suicide Diabolus ex Machina Camp Gay Woman in White Air-Vent Passageway Manly Tears Bond One-Liner It Can Think Freudian Excuse The Stoic Fate Worse than Death Pragmatic Adaptation Boom, Headshot! Shoot the Shaggy Dog Character Development Knife Nut The Ace Fatal Flaw Country Matters Rasputinian Death Conspicuous CG Retired Badass Plucky Comic Relief Every Car Is a Pinto Token Minority Roger Ebert: Great Movies List As the Good Book Says... True Companions Becoming the Mask Gone Horribly Right Here We Go Again! May–December Romance Male Frontal Nudity Bottomless Magazines The Remake Beauty Is Never Tarnished Deliberate Values Dissonance Not So Different Cool Car Sassy Black Woman Eye Scream Beware the Nice Ones Abusive Parents Anachronism Stew Creator Cameo Closed Circle Dogged Nice Guy Jerkass Has a Point Music Stories Grievous Bottley Harm Break the Cutie The Mole Broken Aesop timeperiod Precision F-Strike The Place Depraved Bisexual Tranquil Fury Celebrity Paradox Dropped a Bridge on Him Belligerent Sexual Tension Historical-Domain Character Berserk Button Historical In-Joke Neck Snap "Well Done, Son!" Guy Adaptational Badass Bowdlerise Five-Man Band Malevolent Masked Men Dark and Troubled Past Why Did It Have to Be Snakes? Non-Indicative Name Curb-Stomp Battle Darkest Hour This Is Gonna Suck Shown Their Work The Oner What Happened to the Mouse? 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Is a Crapshoot Politically Incorrect Villain Gorn Would Hit a Girl Calling the Old Man Out Green-Eyed Monster Wicked Cultured Badass Bookworm Suspiciously Similar Substitute The Dragon There Is No Kill Like Overkill Composite Character Parental Neglect Stuff Blowing Up Animal Motifs Badass Longcoat Leitmotif Unusual Euphemism Chewing the Scenery Sanity Slippage Implacable Man Taking the Bullet "The Reason You Suck" Speech Only Sane Man Not Using the "Z" Word Shell-Shocked Veteran Product Placement Authority Equals Asskicking Laughing Mad Mundane Made Awesome Punny Name Faux Affably Evil Bad "Bad Acting" "Awesome McCool" Name Fire-Forged Friends Wretched Hive Actor Allusion Advertised Extra Romantic False Lead Big Brother Instinct Dressing as the Enemy Bloodless Carnage Rape Is a Special Kind of Evil The Voiceless Running Gag Award-Bait Song Horror Films The Chick Insult Backfire Never Trust a Trailer The Film of the Book Wrong Genre Savvy Super Strength Chekhov's Gunman Nice Job Fixing It, Villain! 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Or Is It? He Who Fights Monsters Science Fiction Films Faking the Dead He Knows Too Much Red Herring Tagline Morality Pet Parental Abandonment Greater-Scope Villain Properly Paranoid Drugs Are Bad Put on a Bus The Load Sliding Scale of Idealism vs. Cynicism Nice Job Breaking It, Hero! Artistic License – Physics No Celebrities Were Harmed Your Head A-Splode Dying Moment of Awesome A Date with Rosie Palms Japanese Films Genre Savvy The Reveal Horror Doesn't Settle for Simple Tuesday Hell Is That Noise Red Eyes, Take Warning Dwindling Party Rule of Symbolism In Name Only Peek-a-Boo Corpse Plot Hole Creepy Child Only Known by Their Nickname Hollywood Darkness Public Domain Feature Films An Aesop Police are Useless Trailers Always Spoil Eagleland War Is Hell My God, What Have I Done? Disney Villain Death The Chessmaster Up to Eleven Slasher Smile Real Life Determinator aka: The Determinator Colour-Coded for Your Convenience aka: Color Coded For Your Convenience Henpecked Husband Amoral Attorney Black Comedy Rape The X of Y The Cameo Re-Cut Lampshade Hanging Insane Troll Logic Shipper on Deck The Ghost Ominous Latin Chanting You Have Failed Me Gratuitous English Soundtrack Dissonance Mystery and Detective Films Cowboy Cop A God Am I Chekhov's Skill Line-of-Sight Name The Stinger Historical Hero Upgrade Brutal Honesty Daddy's Girl Red Right Hand Almost Kiss Twist Ending Cluster F-Bomb O.O.C. Is Serious Business Smug Snake Only One Name Meaningful Background Event Crouching Moron, Hidden Badass Let's Get Dangerous! 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Earn Your Happy Ending Married to the Job The Hero Dies Mistaken for Gay Gainax Ending Funny Background Event Those Wacky Nazis Reasonable Authority Figure Pun aka: Incredibly Lame Pun Intergenerational Friendship Rule of Three Ooh, Me Accent's Slipping Missing Mom Toplessness from the Back The Vamp Antagonist Title Neck Lift Funny Foreigner Flipping the Bird Face Death with Dignity Continuity Nod Karma Houdini Nice Guy Pragmatic Villainy Heroic BSoD Eyepatch of Power Shower Scene Made of Explodium Alpha Bitch Martial Arts Movie Idiot Ball Refuge in Audacity Sudden Sequel Death Syndrome Rousing Speech Hooker with a Heart of Gold Abhorrent Admirer The '50s Does This Remind You of Anything? Film Noir Based on a True Story Developing Doomed Characters German Films Jerkass Cat Scare Adults Are Useless Needs Wiki Magic Love Parental Substitute Groin Attack Crapsack World Take That! Mythology Gag Expository Hairstyle Change Mad Scientist Unusually Uninteresting Sight No-Holds-Barred Beatdown Hate Sink It's Personal Truth in Television Christmas Movies Index Madness Mantra Action Girl Evil Cannot Comprehend Good Silent Movie Deadpan Snarker Pre-Mortem One-Liner Left the Background Music On Reckless Gun Usage Slap-Slap-Kiss Demonic Possession Fiery Redhead Everyone Calls Him "Barkeep" Mama Bear The '80s Psycho for Hire Suddenly SHOUTING! Only in It for the Money Show Within a Show Recycled IN SPACE! Cool Shades Screw the Rules, I'm Doing What's Right! Ripped from the Headlines Meaningful Echo Foil Car Fu Obstructive Bureaucrat Shout-Out Badass in a Nice Suit Disney Death The Alcoholic You Have Outlived Your Usefulness Random Events Plot Meet Cute Pretty Little Headshots All for Nothing Dark Reprise Sports Stories Rule of Cool Canon Foreigner Kill It with Fire Evil Counterpart Book-Ends Mercy Kill Training Montage "Shaggy Dog" Story Big "NO!" Evil vs. Evil Blood Knight Sexy Discretion Shot Humans Are Bastards Stealth Pun Maybe Ever After Fish out of Water Establishing Character Moment The Stoner Black Best Friend Bad Boss Broken Pedestal The Atoner Make It Look Like an Accident Playing Gertrude Never Found the Body Action Genre Friend to All Children Hypocritical Humor The Great Depression Bullying a Dragon Batman Gambit The Un-Favourite aka: The Un Favorite Rich Bitch Face–Heel Turn Whole Plot Reference Artistic License – Geography Blonde, Brunette, Redhead Monumental Damage Pet the Dog Works Set in World War II Call-Back 20 Minutes into the Future Breaking the Fourth Wall Big Applesauce Defrosting Ice Queen Armor-Piercing Question Posthumous Character Made of Iron Totally Radical Kick the Dog Bavarian Fire Drill Hidden Depths Wham Shot Failed a Spot Check Action Film, Quiet Drama Scene Real Life Writes the Plot Badass Boast Very Loosely Based on a True Story Say My Name Improvised Weapon Light Is Not Good Author Avatar Hoist by His Own Petard Death Glare "Where Are They Now?" Epilogue Ms. Fanservice The Quiet One Stalker with a Crush Artistic License – Law Death by Adaptation Heel–Face Turn Crazy-Prepared Nothing Is Scarier Spared by the Adaptation Spell My Name with an "S" Outrun the Fireball Villain Song Straight Gay Big-Bad Ensemble Broken Bird One Steve Limit Lighter and Softer Screw the Money, I Have Rules! Death by Irony Facial Horror Arc Words Guns Akimbo Affectionate Parody The Alleged Car Dies Wide Open Fanservice Dirty Cop One-Man Army Bloody Hilarious Hero of Another Story Love Triangle Homage Jerk with a Heart of Gold Yandere Agony of the Feet Wounded Gazelle Gambit Novelization Gold Digger Mexican Standoff Improbable Aiming Skills Final Girl Betty and Veronica The Starscream Too Dumb to Live Black Comedy Captain Ersatz And I Must Scream Domestic Abuse Fantastic Racism Jerk Jock As You Know Jack Bauer Interrogation Technique Fan Disservice Overprotective Dad Exactly What It Says on the Tin