Tropescilloscope: Man on Fire

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

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