Tropescilloscope: Monumental Damage

When the bad guys blow up a big building, it is gonna be one we all recognise. (read more at tvtropes.org)

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Mad Scientist Mama Bear Leitmotif Epic Movie Hair-Trigger Temper Rule of Funny Kids Are Cruel Pun aka: Incredibly Lame Pun Retcon Anti-Hero Jerk with a Heart of Gold Hypocritical Humor Broken Bird All There in the Manual Happily Married Death Seeker Enemy Mine Disney Villain Death Knife Nut Punch-Clock Villain Plucky Comic Relief Major Injury Underreaction Politically Incorrect Villain Hoist by His Own Petard Retirony Pre-Asskicking One-Liner Gorn Cold-Blooded Torture Combat Pragmatist Exact Words Hollywood Darkness Central Theme Oh, Crap! 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Word of God Fake Shemp A Father to His Men Sadistic Choice Took a Level in Jerkass Fatal Flaw Shoot the Shaggy Dog Eye Scream Skewed Priorities Animal Title Index Television Movie Index Break the Haughty Police Brutality Department of Redundancy Department The Brute Alas, Poor Villain Crazy-Prepared Mind Screw Blood from the Mouth Dull Surprise "Awesome McCool" Name And Starring Ambiguous Disorder Wounded Gazelle Gambit Off-into-the-Distance Ending Love Triangle Chekhov's Gunman Expository Hairstyle Change Adapted Out Calling the Old Man Out The Reveal Ironic Echo World of Ham Non-Indicative Name This Is Gonna Suck Heel–Face Turn Jack Bauer Interrogation Technique Failed a Spot Check Vomit Indiscretion Shot Darkest Hour Mooks Properly Paranoid Real Life How We Got Here Alliterative Name Arson, Murder, and Jaywalking Camera Abuse The Remake Based on a True Story Rich Bitch Precision F-Strike What the Hell, Hero? The Cavalry Adaptational Badass The Voiceless Reasonable Authority Figure Character Development Sassy Black Woman Mercy Kill Cool Guns Bring My Brown Pants Military and Warfare Films Wicked Cultured Bloody Hilarious Rated M for Manly Hope Spot Big Eater Ms. Fanservice Cool Car Big "NO!" Crazy Jealous Guy Implacable Man Improbable Aiming Skills More Dakka Rape Is a Special Kind of Evil Our Vampires Are Different Karmic Death Large Ham Conspicuous CG Punny Name Punctuated! For! Emphasis! Martial Arts Movie The Casanova Dissonant Serenity The Sociopath Vacation Films Nice Job Fixing It, Villain! 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Is a Crapshoot Mood Whiplash Covers Always Lie Betty and Veronica '80s Hair I Have Your Wife Slashed Throat Bald of Evil The Film of the Book Deadpan Snarker Henpecked Husband Silence Is Golden Breaking the Fourth Wall B-Movie Death by Sex Superhero Death by Irony Leaning on the Fourth Wall Very Loosely Based on a True Story After the End Mundane Made Awesome Not So Above It All An Arm and a Leg Dirty Coward Maybe Magic, Maybe Mundane Accidental Murder Soundtrack Dissonance Setting Update Homage The Hero Ascended Extra Drill Sergeant Nasty Artistic License – Physics Diabolus ex Machina Artistic License – Military Shut Up, Hannibal! 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Epilogue Bound and Gagged Action Girl Cool Shades Fantastic Racism Blood Knight Pimped-Out Dress The Quiet One Gender Flip Have a Gay Old Time Expy Toilet Humour aka: Toilet Humor Playing Gertrude Anti-Villain Bait-and-Switch Parental Substitute Never Found the Body Wretched Hive She Cleans Up Nicely Film Series Left the Background Music On No-Sell Spell My Name with an "S" Corpsing Action Genre Evil vs. Evil The Un-Reveal Sacrificial Lion Extreme Doormat Freeze-Frame Bonus Artistic License – Law Male Frontal Nudity Children Are Innocent Lock and Load Montage My Beloved Smother Beauty Is Never Tarnished Chewing the Scenery Determinator Half the Man He Used to Be Papa Wolf Bitch in Sheep's Clothing Brutal Honesty Adaptation Dye-Job Pyrrhic Victory Male Gaze Heroes Want Redheads Deliberately Monochrome Defrosting Ice Queen Love at First Sight Crouching Moron, Hidden Badass Took a Level in Badass Adaptation Expansion Refuge in Audacity Boom, Headshot! 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