Tropescilloscope: Man on Fire

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