Tropescilloscope: Martial Arts Movie

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