Tropescilloscope: Military and Warfare Films

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