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)

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