Tropescilloscope: Military and Warfare Films

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