Tropescilloscope: Martial Arts Movie

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