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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Faux Affably Evil Boom, Headshot! There Is No Kill Like Overkill The Dog Bites Back Mooks Action Girl Sexy Discretion Shot Ascended Extra Evil Counterpart Deliberate Values Dissonance Crazy-Prepared Retirony Needs Wiki Magic Love Call-Back Suddenly SHOUTING! The Remake Exactly What It Says on the Tin She's Got Legs It Can Think Properly Paranoid Revenge Damsel in Distress Funny Background Event Very Loosely Based on a True Story Historical Villain Upgrade Never Found the Body Laughing Mad Not What It Looks Like Re-Cut Freeze-Frame Bonus Early-Bird Cameo The Hero Dies Say My Name Distracted by the Sexy Punny Name Psychological Thriller For the Evulz Flashback Facial Horror Bottomless Magazines Jerkass Running Gag Gender Flip Lampshade Hanging Parental Neglect Match Cut Affectionate Parody Translation Convention Arc Words The Stoic As Long as It Sounds Foreign Everyone Has Standards Soundtrack Dissonance Unspoken Plan Guarantee Fantastic Racism Twist Ending Pretty Little Headshots Reality Ensues Obstructive Bureaucrat Punch-Clock Villain Those Two Bad Guys Pretty in Mink Foil Frame-Up Based on a True Story An Aesop British Films No Antagonist Big Fancy House Brutal Honesty Combat Pragmatist Vitriolic Best Buds Dramatic Gun Cock Artistic License – Physics Neck Lift Armor-Piercing Question Betty and Veronica Camera Abuse "Where Are They Now?" Epilogue Greater-Scope Villain Implacable Man Once More, with Clarity! I Need a Freaking Drink Due to the Dead Alliterative Name Sadistic Choice Setting Update Blood Knight Interrupted Suicide Blackmail Sanity Slippage Manly Tears Would Hurt a Child Major Injury Underreaction After the End Have a Gay Old Time Rule of Funny Nice Job Breaking It, Hero! Kids Are Cruel Contrived Coincidence Bland-Name Product Despair Event Horizon Flipping the Bird The Alcoholic Dark Is Not Evil Evil vs. Evil Storming the Castle Call-Forward Creator Cameo Beard of Evil Evil Plan No OSHA Compliance The Vamp Intergenerational Friendship He Who Fights Monsters Jump Scare Pay Evil unto Evil Author Appeal All There in the Script Defrosting Ice Queen Anyone Can Die Happily Married Let's Get Dangerous! 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Nothing Is Scarier Psycho for Hire Covers Always Lie Getting Crap Past the Radar Daylight Horror Fourth Date Marriage Red Eyes, Take Warning Kill It with Fire The Film of the Book Abhorrent Admirer Taking You with Me Real Life Writes the Plot All There in the Manual Spiritual Successor My Greatest Failure The Smart Guy Foreshadowing Reasonable Authority Figure Adaptation Distillation Rape as Drama Belligerent Sexual Tension How We Got Here I Did What I Had to Do Henpecked Husband Fanservice Diabolus ex Machina No-Holds-Barred Beatdown Suspiciously Specific Denial Small Name, Big Ego Anachronic Order Hooker with a Heart of Gold Groin Attack Epic Fail Hair of Gold, Heart of Gold Film Noir Index Bunny-Ears Lawyer Superhero True Companions Affably Evil And I Must Scream More Dakka Cloudcuckoolander Eagleland Destination Defenestration Jitter Cam Room Full of Crazy Expository Hairstyle Change Horror Comedy Fiery Redhead Even Bad Men Love Their Mamas Downer Ending Disguised in Drag Broken Pedestal No Name Given Names to Run Away from Really Fast Rewatch Bonus Handicapped Badass Closed Circle Light Is Not Good Epic Movie Curb-Stomp Battle Not Even Bothering with the Accent Hope Spot Historical Hero Upgrade Pre-Mortem One-Liner Eureka Moment Screw This, I'm Outta Here! 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Brick Joke Abusive Parents Country Matters Continuity Nod Chekhov's Gunman Dropped a Bridge on Him Asshole Victim Dies Wide Open Fish out of Water Deconstruction Badass Bookworm Celebrity Paradox The Brute Bad "Bad Acting" Mad Scientist Action Prologue Hero of Another Story Dwindling Party Ship Tease Car Fu Mundane Made Awesome Double-Meaning Title Awesome, but Impractical The End... Or Is It? Self-Deprecation Only Sane Man The Dragon Laser-Guided Karma Retired Badass From Nobody to Nightmare Bolivian Army Ending Bilingual Bonus Friend to All Children Heroic Sacrifice Non-Indicative Name Crouching Moron, Hidden Badass Irony Straight Gay Time Skip Sacrificial Lion N-Word Privileges Depraved Bisexual Bury Your Gays Knife Nut Badass Normal Decoy Protagonist Catch-Phrase Unusual Euphemism Manchild Meaningful Name Extremely Short Timespan All for Nothing Meaningful Echo Gainax Ending Pre-Asskicking One-Liner Colour-Coded for Your Convenience aka: Color Coded For Your Convenience Punctuated! For! Emphasis! 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Is Serious Business Mugging the Monster The Dreaded Romantic Comedy Demonic Possession Mood Whiplash Bring My Brown Pants Wham Line Slasher Smile Mercy Kill Male Frontal Nudity Playing Gertrude Rasputinian Death Stealth Pun Badass Longcoat Leitmotif Novelization Unusually Uninteresting Sight Film Noir The Power of Love Malevolent Masked Men Skewed Priorities Adult Fear War Is Hell Death by Adaptation Insane Troll Logic BFG Adapted Out Card-Carrying Villain Award-Bait Song Genre Shift Neck Snap Dark Action Girl Shower Scene Hero Antagonist Deliberately Monochrome Smoking Is Cool Bond One-Liner Large Ham A Father to His Men The Voiceless Lock and Load Montage Anti-Hero Ambiguous Ending Red Right Hand Blonde, Brunette, Redhead Line-of-Sight Name The Cavalry The Lancer Adaptational Villainy Animated Credits Opening Bald of Evil Badass Grandpa Faking the Dead Retcon Stylistic Suck Narrator In Name Only Cold-Blooded Torture Never Trust a Trailer aka: Trailers Always Lie And the Adventure Continues Amoral Attorney Conspicuous CG Danny Peary Cult Movies List "Awesome McCool" Name Darker and Edgier The Starscream I Want My Beloved to Be Happy Advertised Extra Spanner in the Works Slashed Throat folderlabel Loads and Loads of Characters Not So Above It All You Have Got to Be Kidding Me! Famous Last Words Authority Equals Asskicking Artistic License – Law Bi the Way Same Language Dub A Minor Kidroduction Works Set in World War II Big Eater Fun with Acronyms Japanese Films Papa Wolf Improbable Aiming Skills Vomit Discretion Shot Slasher Movie Pet the Dog Deal with the Devil Actually Pretty Funny Big Damn Heroes The Ghost Smug Snake Wham Shot Hong Kong Films The Musical Central Theme Beauty Is Never Tarnished Spell My Name with an "S" Didn't Think This Through Off with His Head! Nice Job Fixing It, Villain! Big "NO!" Bavarian Fire Drill Guile Hero In the Back Historical In-Joke All Just a Dream Canadian Movies Deus ex Machina Evil Sounds Deep Rape Is a Special Kind of Evil Maybe Ever After Curse Cut Short Heel–Face Turn Adaptation Name Change Pragmatic Villainy An Arm and a Leg Author Avatar Plot Hole Kick the Son of a Bitch Love Triangle The Cameo Bait-and-Switch Villain Protagonist Anti-Villain One Steve Limit Ghost Fiction Establishing Character Moment Dirty Cop Science Fiction Films Fatal Flaw Redshirt Army The Sociopath Artistic License – Geography Black Comedy Alas, Poor Villain Does This Remind You of Anything? Stealth Hi/Bye Monumental Damage 20 Minutes into the Future What Happened to the Mouse? Adaptation Dye-Job Index of Film Westerns Evil Is Petty Obfuscating Stupidity Sci-Fi Horror Be Careful What You Wish For Men Are the Expendable Gender NO INDOOR VOICE The '70s Corrupt Corporate Executive Adaptation Expansion Dressing as the Enemy Gold Digger Meet Cute Cool Guns Race Lift Loophole Abuse Ugly Guy, Hot Wife It's All About Me Paper-Thin Disguise Freudian Excuse Failed a Spot Check Improbable Weapon User What You Are in the Dark Vampire Fiction Heroes Want Redheads Took a Level in Badass Defiant to the End Too Dumb to Live Chekhov's Gun Serious Business Actor Allusion The Smurfette Principle Becoming the Mask Taking the Bullet French Films The Bad Guy Wins Riddle for the Ages The Quiet One Not Quite Dead The Un-Reveal La Résistance Unreliable Narrator As You Know Wrong Genre Savvy The Oner All Men Are Perverts Jerkass Has a Point Dark and Troubled Past Broken Aesop Bound and Gagged It's Personal Bond Villain Stupidity Those Wacky Nazis Left the Background Music On Composite Character Nice Hat Slap-Slap-Kiss Mama Bear Spiteful Spit Fat Bastard Toplessness from the Back Big Bad Here We Go Again! The Mafia '80s Hair Karma Houdini Gilligan Cut Shout-Out Up to Eleven Crazy Jealous Guy Comically Missing the Point Trailers Always Spoil Bare Your Midriff Silent Movie Mind Screw Bloodier and Gorier Made of Explodium Really Gets Around Screw the Money, I Have Rules! Only in It for the Money Moment Killer B-Movie May–December Romance Guns Akimbo Sequel Escalation Parental Incest Police are Useless Music Stories Good Is Not Nice Missing Mom Eldritch Abomination Black Comedy Rape Shirtless Scene Woman Scorned Take a Third Option Enemy Mine Arch-Enemy Woobie, Destroyer of Worlds Scare Chord The Lost Lenore My God, What Have I Done? The Hero Mistaken for Gay Attempted Rape Overly Long Gag Crapsack World Ax-Crazy Antagonist Title Sudden Sequel Death Syndrome Hate Sink Every Car Is a Pinto Adaptational Badass Suspiciously Similar Substitute Make It Look Like an Accident The Un-Favourite aka: The Un Favorite Mighty Whitey Naked People Are Funny Death by Irony Alpha Bitch Green-Eyed Monster Military and Warfare Films Better to Die than Be Killed Catapult Nightmare Manic Pixie Dream Girl Cool Old Lady Anguished Declaration of Love Disappeared Dad Red Oni, Blue Oni Recap / RiffTrax aka: Riff Trax Movies Demoted to Extra Stock Footage Extreme Doormat Gorn Aside Glance Disproportionate Retribution What the Hell, Hero? Dogged Nice Guy Mythology Gag The Stinger In Medias Res Sole Survivor Politically Incorrect Villain Parental Abandonment Soft Glass Ironic Echo I'm a Humanitarian Casting Gag Chewing the Scenery Black and Gray Morality Married to the Job Hell Is That Noise From Bad to Worse Dull Surprise Woman in White Hidden Depths Agony of the Feet Motor Mouth Scenery Gorn Ominous Latin Chanting Brainless Beauty The Casanova Disney Death The Big Guy Manipulative Bastard Get Out! I Have Your Wife Back from the Dead timeperiod Character Development Break the Cutie Sassy Black Woman Market-Based Title One-Word Title Captain Obvious Creepy Child "Well Done, Son!" Guy Half the Man He Used to Be Horror Doesn't Settle for Simple Tuesday Idiot Ball This Is Gonna Suck Death by Sex Imagine Spot Villain with Good Publicity Pimped-Out Dress Babies Ever After Bowdlerise You Have Failed Me Take That! Even Evil Has Loved Ones Brother–Sister Incest Eye Scream Aww, Look! They Really Do Love Each Other Fanservice Extra Adaptational Heroism Important Haircut Artistic License – Military Precision F-Strike Screw the Rules, I'm Doing What's Right! Insistent Terminology The Chick Reckless Gun Usage Madness Mantra The Faceless Recycled IN SPACE! Tranquil Fury Kick the Dog Kubrick Stare Shipper on Deck Rule of Three Action Genre Cain and Abel The '60s Not So Different Cowboy Cop Department of Redundancy Department Villain Song Knight Templar Thriller Determinator aka: The Determinator Rich Bitch Outrun the Fireball Training Montage Scary Black Man Not So Stoic Horror Films Coming-of-Age Story German Films Man on Fire Body Horror Our Vampires Are Different Stuff Blowing Up Batman Gambit Adorkable The Great Depression World of Ham Air-Vent Passageway Artistic License – History Show Within a Show Five-Man Band Kill 'em All Corpsing Butt-Monkey Instant Death Bullet Ms. Fanservice Title Drop Cat Scare Toilet Humour aka: Toilet Humor Hypocritical Humor Vomit Indiscretion Shot Canon Foreigner Dramedy Big Applesauce Italian Films Book-Ends Together in Death Age Lift Romantic False Lead Daddy's Girl Naïve Newcomer Dissonant Serenity Aluminum Christmas Trees Heterosexual Life-Partners