Tropescilloscope: Military and Warfare Films

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