Tropescilloscope: Military and Warfare Films

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