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