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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Scenery Gorn Title Drop Slap-Slap-Kiss Psychological Thriller Heroic Sacrifice Determinator aka: The Determinator My God, What Have I Done? Jerk with a Heart of Gold Diabolus ex Machina Rasputinian Death Show Within a Show Exactly What It Says on the Tin Coming-of-Age Story Jack Bauer Interrogation Technique Suspiciously Similar Substitute Amusing Injuries Double-Meaning Title The Bad Guy Wins Adaptation Expansion Fire-Forged Friends Does This Remind You of Anything? Honor Before Reason Motor Mouth Fun with Acronyms Greater-Scope Villain Beta Couple Affectionate Parody Downer Ending Friend to All Children Hypocritical Humor Smoking Is Cool B-Movie Foreshadowing Disney Villain Death Sexy Discretion Shot Names to Run Away from Really Fast Vomit Discretion Shot Crazy-Prepared Too Dumb to Live Captain Ersatz Riddle for the Ages Dirty Old Man Scenery Porn Running Gag Break the Haughty Bilingual Bonus Stalker with a Crush Scary Black Man Country Matters Heel–Face Turn Biopic My Greatest Failure Darker and Edgier The Musical Manchild Armor-Piercing Question Dual Wielding Red Eyes, Take Warning Bi the Way Reality Is Unrealistic Video Credits Deconstruction Only Known by Their Nickname An Arm and a Leg Token Minority Dogged Nice Guy Pay Evil unto Evil Funny Background Event Guile Hero Failed a Spot Check Dramatic Gun Cock Rape Is a Special Kind of Evil Poor Communication Kills Silence Is Golden Sinister Minister Jitter Cam Manly Tears Action Genre Make It Look Like an Accident I Want My Beloved to Be Happy Made of Explodium Getting Crap Past the Radar Not Using the "Z" Word Off with His Head! 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British Films Developing Doomed Characters Heterosexual Life-Partners Foil Immune to Bullets Action Survivor Credits Gag Author Appeal As Himself Sanity Slippage Dressing as the Enemy Ripped from the Headlines I Just Shot Marvin in the Face Parental Incest Drowning My Sorrows Tranquil Fury Throwing Your Sword Always Works No-Sell Lampshade Hanging Adorkable Fantasy Films Hollywood Law Tap on the Head Never My Fault Race Against the Clock Soundtrack Dissonance Belligerent Sexual Tension Mind Screw Papa Wolf Pun aka: Incredibly Lame Pun The Ghost Action Film, Quiet Drama Scene Grievous Bottley Harm An Axe to Grind Outrun the Fireball The Dreaded Eldritch Abomination Reality Has No Subtitles Drives Like Crazy Does Not Like Shoes The Dog Bites Back Fat Bastard "Well Done, Son!" Guy Mythology Gag Aww, Look! They Really Do Love Each Other Spell My Name with an "S" Let's Get Dangerous! Disappeared Dad After the End Deadpan Snarker Evil Is Petty Green-Eyed Monster Badass Boast Punch-Clock Villain Laser-Guided Karma Recap / RiffTrax aka: Riff Trax Movies Spiteful Spit Only a Flesh Wound Dies Wide Open Important Haircut Chiaroscuro Animal Motifs No Antagonist Properly Paranoid What You Are in the Dark Science Fiction Films Never Trust a Trailer aka: Trailers Always Lie Groin Attack All for Nothing Canadian Movies Book-Ends Daylight Horror Girl-on-Girl Is Hot Moment Killer Christmas Movies Index Big Eater Sequel Escalation Blatant Lies Corpsing Tagline Fourth Date Marriage O.O.C. Is Serious Business Fan Disservice Heel Realization Genre Throwback Would Hit a Girl The Alcoholic The Quiet One French Films Peek-a-Boo Corpse This Is Gonna Suck Wretched Hive Evil vs. Evil Creepy Child Black Best Friend It's Personal Up to Eleven Bring My Brown Pants Cassandra Truth Hero Antagonist The Smart Guy The Atoner Ragtag Bunch of Misfits Abhorrent Admirer Rich Bitch Beard of Evil Animated Credits Opening Arch-Enemy Happily Married She Cleans Up Nicely Not What It Looks Like Ambiguous Ending Music Stories Translation Convention Major Injury Underreaction Badass Bookworm Villain Protagonist Evil Brit Adaptation Name Change The Smurfette Principle Funny Foreigner Evil Counterpart Roaring Rampage of Revenge Gory Discretion Shot Ominous Latin Chanting Eye Scream Daddy's Girl Bland-Name Product Offscreen Moment of Awesome Meaningful Echo Crucified Hero Shot Very Loosely Based on a True Story Auto Erotica Sequel Hook Awesome, but Impractical Chase Scene The Casanova Made of Iron I Need a Freaking Drink Romantic Comedy Small Name, Big Ego Sealed Evil in a Can Film Series Plucky Comic Relief Artistic License – Biology Amoral Attorney Broken Pedestal Accidental Murder Police are Useless Would Hurt a Child True Companions Mad Scientist Ship Tease Call-Forward Lighter and Softer Hypocrite Stylistic Suck Dirty Coward Apocalypse How Crazy Jealous Guy The Big Guy Toilet Humour aka: Toilet Humor All Men Are Perverts Chekhov's Gunman Pre-Asskicking One-Liner Evil-Detecting Dog Chekhov's Gun And the Adventure Continues Obviously Evil For Want of a Nail Costume Porn Dramedy Pre-Mortem One-Liner Men Are the Expendable Gender The End... Or Is It? The '50s Took a Level in Jerkass As You Know Pretty Little Headshots More Dakka Adaptational Heroism Colour-Coded for Your Convenience aka: Color Coded For Your Convenience Bullying a Dragon The X of Y Psychopathic Manchild Bound and Gagged Dying Moment of Awesome Villainous Breakdown Sir Swears-a-Lot Disproportionate Retribution Novelization Only One Name Bury Your Gays The Bully The Un-Favourite aka: The Un Favorite Big Applesauce Yandere Alliterative Name Fatal Flaw Spanner in the Works The Lancer Continuity Nod Anachronism Stew Fantastic Racism Big Bad Based on a True Story Big Fancy House Have a Gay Old Time Affably Evil Nice Job Breaking It, Hero! Suspiciously Specific Denial Covers Always Lie Freudian Excuse Precision F-Strike Playing Gertrude Knight Templar Bottomless Magazines Gorn From Bad to Worse Male Frontal Nudity Villain with Good Publicity Comically Missing the Point Shown Their Work Kick the Dog Demonic Possession Loads and Loads of Characters Get Out! 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Deus ex Machina Mooks Naïve Newcomer Combat Pragmatist Informed Ability Non-Indicative Name Faking the Dead Every Car Is a Pinto Refuge in Audacity Taking the Bullet Alas, Poor Villain Laughing Mad Depraved Bisexual Stealth Hi/Bye Tempting Fate "Where Are They Now?" Epilogue Evil Cannot Comprehend Good Pet the Dog 20 Minutes into the Future Darkest Hour Stepford Smiler In the Back Catapult Nightmare Attempted Rape Brick Joke The Dragon Adaptational Attractiveness Smug Snake Bunny-Ears Lawyer Black Comedy Gone Horribly Right I Did What I Had to Do The Load Big Brother Instinct Ascended Extra My Beloved Smother Wham Line Intergenerational Friendship Sir Not-Appearing-in-This-Trailer The Faceless Put on a Bus Back from the Dead Historical Hero Upgrade Light Is Not Good Knife Nut Super Strength Bad Boss Expository Hairstyle Change Closed Circle Mama Bear Wham Shot Cat Fight Actually Pretty Funny Authority Equals Asskicking Four-Temperament Ensemble And I Must Scream Brainless Beauty Impaled with Extreme Prejudice Early Installment Weirdness Real Life Writes the Plot Distracted by the Sexy Artistic License – Geography Face–Heel Turn Pragmatic Villainy Contrived Coincidence Shout-Out timeperiod The Un-Reveal Ambiguous Disorder Irony Romantic False Lead Silent Movie Woobie, Destroyer of Worlds Five-Man Band Loophole Abuse Unusual Euphemism Becoming the Mask Award-Bait Song Police Brutality Noodle Incident Karmic Death The Stinger Leitmotif Anti-Villain One Steve Limit The Mole Jerkass Has a Point Implacable Man Flashback Product Placement Adult Fear Exact Words Double Entendre Sudden Sequel Death Syndrome Australian Movies Serial Killer Curb-Stomp Battle Bond Villain Stupidity Pretty in Mink Big-Bad Ensemble Public Domain Feature Films Shower Scene Maybe Ever After Beware the Nice Ones Framing Device Imperial Stormtrooper Marksmanship Academy Expy Rule of Three Bad "Bad Acting" Killed Mid-Sentence Ms. Fanservice Fingore Evil Is Hammy Eureka Moment Malevolent Masked Men Intrepid Reporter Nice Job Fixing It, Villain! 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Evil Laugh Missing Mom As the Good Book Says... Blonde, Brunette, Redhead Not So Different Aside Glance Screw This, I'm Outta Here! Gainax Ending It Will Never Catch On Bavarian Fire Drill The Ditz Retirony Due to the Dead Anguished Declaration of Love Roger Ebert: Great Movies List Casting Gag "The Reason You Suck" Speech No-Holds-Barred Beatdown Take a Third Option What Happened to the Mouse? The Hero Married to the Job Dark and Troubled Past Our Zombies Are Different Red Herring Parental Substitute Blood from the Mouth Antagonist Title Unwitting Instigator of Doom Deal with the Devil Insult Backfire Screw the Money, I Have Rules! 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Match Cut Damsel in Distress Hero of Another Story Self-Deprecation Betty and Veronica '80s Hair A God Am I Facial Horror Black Dude Dies First Neck Snap Disguised in Drag Insane Troll Logic The '60s folderlabel The Oner Took a Level in Badass Taking You with Me Jump Scare Blackmail In Name Only The '90s Historical In-Joke Badass Longcoat Ax-Crazy Half the Man He Used to Be Stock Footage Arranged Marriage All Just a Dream The Starscream Why Did It Have to Be Snakes? Visual Pun Humans Are Bastards Morality Pet Eagleland Ironic Echo Retired Badass Sports Stories How We Got Here Epic Movie I'm a Humanitarian Shirtless Scene Deliberate Values Dissonance Adaptation Dye-Job La Résistance Gratuitous English Drill Sergeant Nasty Race Lift Ass Shove Pyrrhic Victory In Medias Res The Cameo Heroes Want Redheads Homage Obstructive Bureaucrat Ugly Guy, Hot Wife For the Evulz Horror Comedy Dutch Angle Scare Chord The Remake Truth in Television Undying Loyalty Deliberately Monochrome Never Trust a Trailer Word of God Here We Go Again! Meet Cute Kids Are Cruel Accidental Misnaming Determinator The Hero Dies Storming the Castle Soft Glass Bait-and-Switch Superhero Camp Gay No OSHA Compliance Defiant to the End A.I. Is a Crapshoot Decoy Protagonist Fanservice Random Events Plot I Have Your Wife Red Right Hand Reality Ensues Empathic Environment War Is Hell Ooh, Me Accent's Slipping Suddenly SHOUTING! 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