Tropescilloscope: Man on Fire

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

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