Tropescilloscope: Martial Arts Movie

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