Tropescilloscope: Military and Warfare Films

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