Tropescilloscope: Military and Warfare Films

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