Tropescilloscope: Military and Warfare Films

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