Tropescilloscope: Martial Arts Movie

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