Tropescilloscope: Military and Warfare Films

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