Tropescilloscope: Military and Warfare Films

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