Tropescilloscope: Man on Fire

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

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