Tropescilloscope: Military and Warfare Films

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