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